On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:51 -0700, trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote: > Ahh I think I understand now. That would be hard to enforce if you > release it gpled. Trying to control the trademark that way would be > counter to the license, and if you sued becuase someone did that it > *might* cause you to lose your trademark (I dont know what would happen > I havent heard of a single case where that did happen with open souce). >
I this light I looked on my desk and saw a foam cupo holder (keeps your canned drink cold) its by Applix, for a product they did in 1991. Aster*X[tm], while it is workgroup productivity software, and not a pbx (which when tied into CRM, integration of voicemail, email, faxing, etc, which asterisk can do) the name is close and the related field is close enough that I could see lawyers at least trying to sue. So for all the people that have screamed that openpbx should be sued becuase they forked the gpl code (something allowed) those same people wouldnt want digium to be sued by applix (granted I dont know if they are around anymore, I did get this almost 15 years ago) for having a similar name and causing confusion. Even if Applix doesnt win it could be costly for digium. So rather than fight what is implicitly allowed under the gpl, and infact part of the intent of the gpl, just go with it, your kharma will increase. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel UK +44 870 340 4605 Germany +49 801 777 555 3402 US +1 360 207 0479 or +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378
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