Does anyone think any "trademark torpedo" prevention clauses should be added? The trademark issue being the one that allows a company (e.g. Red Hat) to prevent redistribution "as is" of their offered packages. Requiring any distributor (e.g. CentOS) to spend time hunting through documentation and images for any trademarks, re-branding the package and then retesting it.
I should add that with the example of CentOS, they mentioned this was taking them weeks, but Red Hat have moved trademarked items into one place now, which simplifies the task somewhat. The task does still exist though, and is probably expensive to ensure its done completely each time. Should the GPL protect against companies using trademarks to prevent redistribution "as is" ? Kind regards, Jon -- Weblog: http://jguk.org/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
