> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:ogf-l-admin@;opengamingfoundation.org] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 9:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Ogf-l] Trademark in OGC > > I think that's a good way to look at it. There's OGC, PI, > standard, and trademarks--which you can use if they're OGC, > but you can't say you're compatible with the trademark. > > Thus, if a spells-book was to call its spell names as > trademarks but not PI, you could use the names as they are, > but you couldn't make a new spell and say "this spell is like > (tradmearked spell)", or renamed the spell and say "this > spell is just like (trademarked spell)" without permission.
Interesting. A very literal reading, and thus perhaps a solid legal reading. So to my four options in my previous message, add: 5. A trademark declared as OGC may be freely reused under the OGL without a separate license, but not in any way which indicates compatibility or co-adaptability. This is almost as troublesome as the option 3 I referred to. It means that a trademark could accidentally be declared as OGC, and thus reused by others. Martin L. Shoemaker Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting, Software Design and UML Training [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.MartinLShoemaker.com http://www.UMLBootCamp.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
