Unfortunately if they don't have something in place like this, then a
company can come along and hijack the 'mySQL' name/logo for their own ends.
A company has to make a sincere effort to protect its trademarks else it
will fall into the public domain. Then a NuSpherish company can come along,
use the 'mySQL' in a malicious manner with harm to your company and the
reputation of mySQL, and there would be nothing to stop them.
I don't like it anymore than you, but welcome to the New Millenium and the
DMCA.
Shalom,
Will
PS Shakespeare said it best as 'The first thing we do is kill all the
lawyers.'
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Carp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:25 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Sinisa Milivojevic'
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Use of the MySQL logo - licensing agreement
> My point, and I believe Ed's point, is that I'm not clear on use of the
> MySQL logo in my software, printed material, etc.
What concerns me is that the new logo licensing stuff is so restrictive,
*anyone* who even displays the logo on a web site ("powered by MySQL") has
to get WRITTEN PERMISSION to do so from MySQL AB. I'm uncomfortable with
that, particularly since it's free advertising for MySQL, and the way I look
at it, anyone who displays the logo on their web site (except for blatantly
trying to rip off MySQL in some way) is doing MySQL a favor, and it seems
particularly ungrateful to the developer community to force them to jump
through all kinds of hoops to do MySQL a favor.
Does that make any sense? I'm not trying to slam MySQL, I'm just concerned
about displaying the logo on a web site that says "powered by MySQL" or
modifying the logo like folks used to do to produce all kinds of cool
enhancements to the name MySQL.
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