copyright vs trademark. yes your right in that the branding concepts I was lumping under copyright. Really the apache license covers the copyright so that's golden.
the branding (e.g. xsp) is under the trademark concept. As I said there's nothing on the website stating trademark infringement explictly like you see on major vendors, e.g. MS, Sun, IBM, etc. However under trademark law there is the concept of common law trademark where you don't explicitly trademark anything (something I learned from my lawyer family in the last 15 minutes.) Anyway someone needs to check when trilog... started advertising their form of XSP. If it was after cocoon's notification (publication to the website and news, etc.) then I'd think trilog and co. are about to see merde hit the fan. assuming apache and co. wanted to do anything about it. This is under trademark infringement. Personally I'd do something, if nothing else to write a cease and desist/angry email. And then if someone sued them or slapped an injunction on them we could see if they were usign the cocoon code and if so then they're not be abiding by the apache license then they're in copyright infringement. oops. either way someone should say something to apache, e.g. look at the copyright/trademark issues if any. I myself wouldn't know who to talk to.. MD --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
