On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 09:23 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rahul Sundaram
<metherid(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So according to you any free software with a trademark is non-free
> software? Good luck getting anyone including FSF to agree with that
> interpretation.
>
> Rahul
I'm sure they will. Trademark restrictions violate one of the four
freedoms and if you want I can ask Richard Stallman directly if this
trademark rule makes software non-free. Actually I'll just go ahead
and do it just to prove a point.
If I wanted to Fork Fedora, and I called it Fedora, i'd soon see a
letter from Redhat legal. I'm not free to use the name. Thus, if I
fork Fedora I am required by trademark law to rename it or be in
violation.
You might consider taking this discussion to the legal alias and talking
it over there. It seems to be beyond 'devel' at the moment.
thanks
-sv