Francesco Poli writes:
>> p.s. I think the FSF in general plays it quite fair; I'd treat a
>> for-profit company with a lot more skepticism.
>
> I don't think that requiring copyright assignment from contributors is
> a fair game, not even when practiced by the FSF.
> However, if you trust the FSF
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:27:38PM +0100, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
> OpenCFD (R) has issued new guidelines for their tradmark OpenFOAM:
> http://www.openfoam.com/legal/trademark-guidelines.php
> My question is if these are legal: not allowing hydrostaticFoam as your
> self-written new solver for
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Gerber van der Graaf <
gerber.vdgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is Pepsi Cola is a trademark infringement of Coca Cola?
>
"Cola" is a common word that describes the product, so no. If the word
"FOAM" were a word frequently used to describe things of this type with no
Le Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 07:27:38PM +0100, Gerber van der Graaf a écrit :
> OpenCFD (R) has issued new guidelines for their tradmark OpenFOAM:
> http://www.openfoam.com/legal/trademark-guidelines.php
> My question is if these are legal: not allowing hydrostaticFoam as your
> self-written new solver
OpenCFD (R) has issued new guidelines for their tradmark OpenFOAM:
http://www.openfoam.com/legal/trademark-guidelines.php
My question is if these are legal: not allowing hydrostaticFoam as your
self-written new solver for example. So, actually they are claiming the
"FOAM" word to be used in a name.
Miles Bader writes:
> Gerber van der Graaf writes:
> >> I think that accepting contributions only when the contributor
> >> transfers his/her copyright is indeed allowed for GPL software:
> >> actually it's what the FSF does... :-(
[…]
> p.s. I think the FSF in general plays it quite fair; I'd
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:36:16 +0900 Miles Bader wrote:
> Gerber van der Graaf writes:
> >> I think that accepting contributions only when the contributor transfers
> >> his/her copyright is indeed allowed for GPL software: actually it's
> >> what the FSF does... :-(
> >
> > I didn't know that an
Gerber van der Graaf writes:
>> I think that accepting contributions only when the contributor transfers
>> his/her copyright is indeed allowed for GPL software: actually it's
>> what the FSF does... :-(
>
> I didn't know that and that's quite strong. Do they also erase the names
> of contributi
On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 18:20 +0100, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:04:30 +0100 Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
>
> > I have to correct something: Holger Marschall, the author of the
> > "OpenFOAM Documentation Project", explained me he only received some
> > emails where OpenCFD threat
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 16:04:30 +0100 Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
> I have to correct something: Holger Marschall, the author of the
> "OpenFOAM Documentation Project", explained me he only received some
> emails where OpenCFD threatened him to write a letter of legally valid
> cease and desist lett
I have to correct something: Holger Marschall, the author of the
"OpenFOAM Documentation Project", explained me he only received some
emails where OpenCFD threatened him to write a letter of legally valid
cease and desist letter. He actually did not receive it as he put down
the website. Also, aft
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:31:28 +0100 Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
> Hi,
Hi!
> I have a question concerning trademark name infringement for a GPL
> software I and a colleagues are working on. The company OpenCFD
> (http://www.cfd-online.com/)
I think you meant http://www.openfoam.com/ here...
> is
Thanks very much for your replies. Gerber
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 08:59 -0800, r...@packetlaw.com wrote:
> On Nov 18, 2010, at 7:31 AM, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
> > I have a question concerning trademark name infringement for a GPL
> > software I and a colleagues are working on. The company OpenC
Hi,
I have a question concerning trademark name infringement for a GPL
software I and a colleagues are working on. The company OpenCFD
(http://www.cfd-online.com/) issued software for Computational Fluids
Dynamics (CFD) called 'OpenFOAM' under the GPL license
(http://www.openfoam.com/). The abbrevi
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