On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Pen-Yuan Hsing <penyuanhs...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16/02/18 11:13, Erik Auerswald wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I did not want to enter this flame war, but I want to point out an >> obvious misunderstanding of the involved parties: >> >> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 02:51:06PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >>> [...] >>> now, it so happens in the case of HDMI that you can simply put an >>> HDMI connector on the product.... what you CANNOT AND MUST NOT DO is >>> put the *WORD* "HDMI" anywhere on your product, because that has >>> SPECIFIC implications that the seller of that product HAS GONE THROUGH >>> THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS. >> >> Without a "product" and a "seller" there can be no infringement. A hobby >> project can exist and be publicly discussed and documented without being >> either a product or sold. >> >> Over and out, >> Erik > > I didn't want to enter this either. But I'd like to clarify that if it's > copyright we're talking about,
I strongly suspect that it is _not_ copyright that we're talking about. Until Luke or someone else points at an authoritative source to show otherwise, I would assume that he's just mixed up several of the barely related branches of law that people unhelpfully lump together under the "Intellectual Property" umbrella term. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk
