LOTTERY WINNING INFORMATION

2003-07-06 Thread robert
CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL EMAIL LOTTERY FROM:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT Ref. Number: OGS/2311786008/01 Batch Number: 14/011/IPD RE:WINNING NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 1st January, 2003.

LOTTERY WINNING INFORMATION

2003-07-06 Thread robert
CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL EMAIL LOTTERY FROM:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT Ref. Number: OGS/2311786008/01 Batch Number: 14/011/IPD RE:WINNING NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 1st January, 2003.

LOTTERY WINNING INFORMATION

2003-07-06 Thread robert
CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL EMAIL LOTTERY FROM:INTERNATIONAL PROMOTION/PRIZE AWARD DEPT Ref. Number: OGS/2311786008/01 Batch Number: 14/011/IPD RE:WINNING NOTIFICATION/FINAL NOTICE We are pleased to inform you of the result of the Lottery Winners International programs held on the 1st January, 2003.

Open source and trademarks

2003-07-06 Thread Ihab Awad
Hi folks, What are the implications of trademark ownership regarding Open Source software? Say, for example, that I produce -- HappySoft[tm] -- A program promoting happiness and I reserve www.happysoft.org, and make a cool logo, and my Java package names (or C++ namespaces) start with --

Re: Open source and trademarks

2003-07-06 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Ihab Awad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What are the implications of trademark ownership regarding Open Source > software? Less than you might think. [You register and use HappySoft as a trademark in a particular field for a particular piece of software, and publish statements like:] > Hap

RE: Open source and trademarks

2003-07-06 Thread Don Jarrell
OK, first, IANAL, TINLA, TSNBCAUPL. (I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, this should not be construed as unlicensed practice of law). What I offer is business commentary, that is, what I would do in my business in these circumstances, or what I would advise my business consulting clients

RE: Open source and trademarks

2003-07-06 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
Hi Ihab, A trademark is not a privilege to take a word out of the language, to prevent people from uttering that word in their source code or on their entirely different kinds of products, or when comparing their software to the trademark owner's software. A trademark is just a word, name, symbol

Re: Open source and trademarks

2003-07-06 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting myself: > My recollection is that the legal standard applicable to trademarks is > that infringing use must tend to create such confusion _not_ in the mind > of a "reasonably prudent" customer. Cancel that word "not". Edit error -- sorry. -- Cheers, find / -user your -name b

GPL vs. MPL - An oldie?

2003-07-06 Thread Hessel Rosbergen
Hello, With the great danger to step on a very old subject, I would like to ask weather people have experience connecting GPL software to MPL software? As I am not a lawyer, I understand using GPL software from within MPL software only requires permission from the GPL author? Thnx for replying,