RE: trademarked logos and GPL

2001-01-25 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
I appreciate and sign on to Rod Dixon's answer. Well phrased! Thanks. /Larry Rosen Rod wrote: Matt, I think the point was to say that some posts were not making a distinction between saying "that license is not legally enforceable in any court in the U.S." and "some of the terms of that

RE: trademarked logos and GPL

2001-01-25 Thread Lawrence E. Rosen
John, you asked: For example, it was because of mistakes made early in the game that the open source community lost all opportunity to obtain a trademark on "open source." Hmm, interesting. I thought it was because of the descriptive nature of the proposed mark, which would make

RE: trademarked logos and GPL

2001-01-25 Thread Ravicher, Daniel B.
6:25 PM To: Rodent of Unusual Size Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: trademarked logos and GPL Dear Rodent, I'm sorry that my comments rubbed you the wrong way. My concern was that the particular question I was commenting on dealt not specifically with license

Re: trademarked logos and GPL

2001-01-25 Thread John Cowan
Ravicher, Daniel B. wrote: Non-lawyers want clear cut answers and believe they exist. Lawyers know clear cut answers don't exist; there are always arguments on both sides. The first thing you learn in a lawin' family is that there ain't any definite answers to anything.

Re: trademarked logos and GPL

2001-01-23 Thread Matthew C. Weigel
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote: I want to discourage license-discuss participants from answering questions like this one. : But non-lawyers have to avoid giving legal advice Sorry, but this really rubs me the wrong way. In a word, BS. I agree. If

Re: trademarked logos and GPL

2001-01-22 Thread Bart Decrem
Executive Director, OSI 650-216-1597 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.opensource.org www.rosenlaw.com -Original Message- From: Bart Decrem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: trademarked logos and GP

Advice on advice (was Re: trademarked logos and GPL)

2001-01-22 Thread kmself
on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 05:23:00PM -0800, Lawrence E. Rosen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -Original Message- From: Bart Decrem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: trademarked logos and GPL