On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 19:29, Richard Fontana <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:06 PM Iñaki Ucar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 18:10, Richard Fontana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 9:44 PM Pamela Chestek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > As to the trademark question, IMHO I tend to agree with Richard that > > > > the license prohibits lawful nominative/referential fair use. The BSD > > > > license says "endorse," which does allow for lawful use (a proper > > > > nominative fair use would not suggest endorsement). "Promote" is a > > > > closer call; if I say "LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice" at a time > > > > when OpenOffice is more well-known, that might be considered using > > > > "OpenOffice" in a promotional way. But since it travels with "endorse," > > > > there is an argument that they didn't mean to prohibit a lawful > > > > referential use. I don't think that can be said for the Mininet > > > > license. I think the intentions may have been good with the Mininet > > > > license, but done in a way that probably crosses the line. > > > > As for this clause, I found that the W3C license (which is listed as a > > good license for Fedora) contains an almost identical one: > > https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231. > > Indeed, thanks, that is definitely worth considering when assessing > this license.
And, if it's useful in any way, I found this thread too: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/mininet-discuss/2014-August/004879.html. And it's part of Debian: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/mininet -- Iñaki Úcar _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
