Normal words cannot be trademark you say ... some people have trademark god christ freedom free ...
The "normality" is what is not for some others ... Regards Aaron Wolf <[email protected]> writes: > One clarification: To say simply: While Trademark is important, Git is > *abusing* their trademark by not simply accept GitBull quickly. The > situation is stupid. Git had *no* reason to stop a Kallithea host from > using a Git name, and trademark law should not give them that level of > power. If a service is fully and completely using Git software and doing > nothing that misrepresents their relationship to Git, they should be > accepted. However, Git *should* have the ability to complain and stop > the service from using the name if they start doing anything that could > be confused. > > I think instead of stopping the use of the name, Git should simply > require a statement like "This service uses Git software but is not > officially connected to the Git project or endorsed by the Git project." > > On 04/17/2015 09:13 AM, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> Thanks for the news. >> >> Please learn more about trademark though. Trademark is NOT owning any >> word. Normal words cannot be trademarked, and trademark isn't full >> ownership of words. The Git project does not own the word "Git" if it >> were used for something like a brand of ice cream. They do not own the >> word in terms of people talking about the Git project. The do not >> control it completely. They have exclusive control over only a small >> area: the use of the word Git for *products* and *services* that are in >> the area where people could confuse them for being official Git products >> or services. >> >> In other words, trademark is a *consumer protection*. It helps make sure >> that the public are not tricked into thinking something is an official >> version or officially endorsed part of something when it is not. This >> does not make anyone a slave. >> >> By complaining to you, Git was saying: "We don't know that we fully >> endorse your GitBull service, and we are worried that the public may >> think your service has official connection to the Git project. So, we >> want to restrict the name Git here because we want people to know that >> if they see Git in the name of something similar to or related to the >> Git project that it isn't a fake thing or a trick or something." >> >> Now, *I* think it is wrong for Git to do anything other than realize >> that GitBull was fine. But I do *not* think they should have no >> trademark. I do *not* want someone else less responsible than you to >> make Git-something that actually uses Git badly or pretends to be like >> Git when it is actually not Git software but something similar but >> different. That might make people have bad experience and think badly of >> Git. Trademark is GOOD for the public, which is not true for patents and >> copyright. >> >> On 04/17/2015 02:02 AM, Aurélien DESBRIÈRES wrote: >>> >>> Hello Coders! >>> >>> So ... on start this thread wake up with Alimiracle who request for >>> support for fully free solution for his codes host. >>> >>> It is right that many solution already exist, but they are not all >>> completly free or try to be, but are not. >>> >>> We try on our side to make this place a reality, which represent many >>> trouble, but, find the way with kallithea. >>> >>> At first we have used the name gitbull, git for the tool ... bull for >>> the horns of the gnu beast. >>> >>> But freedom is not the same in the mind of every humans. >>> >>> The Software Freedom Conservancy ping me (very correctly) but ping me on >>> the fact we use the term git and the point that git is trademark. >>> >>> That make me discover that many things are trademark and by the way ping >>> LibrePlanet to act on LibreMark. >>> >>> We can't own a name, because to make it short if i own the name earth >>> you are all my slave. If I own the name fire, your ass will freeze ... >>> >>> A bit strong form of explanation, but simple enought to say that it is >>> not because you own a word that in front the reality of this know part >>> of the bubble universes where we live it is the reality. >>> >>> You don't own anything, but yes you can use the force to jail me. Very >>> human and in human by the way. >>> >>> So, >>> >>> We push all our things to https://bull.codes >>> >>> and continue to make the things free as in freedom and price. >>> >>> I understand that this last point is very difficult for some people to >>> understand, but if you think of this planet 7000 years before there were >>> no money and things were not so bad. >>> >>> Maybe money is the chain of slavery you just don't have ping in your >>> mind. >>> >>> Welcome to our Free Coding Community, Welcome to Bull Codes >>> >>> https://bull.codes >>> >>> >> > <#secure method=pgpmime mode=sign> -- Aurélien Desbrières Bull.Codes - Community Coding Hackers.Camp - OutDoor Hacktivities Hackers-Lab.org - Free Software & Mechatronics Laboratory
