On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:06 PM Iñaki Ucar <iucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 18:10, Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 9:44 PM Pamela Chestek <pchestek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > As to the trademark question, IMHO I tend to agree with Richard that the license prohibits lawful nominative/referential fair use. The BSD license says "endorse," which does allow for lawful use (a proper nominative fair use would not suggest endorsement). "Promote" is a closer call; if I say "LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice" at a time when OpenOffice is more well-known, that might be considered using "OpenOffice" in a promotional way. But since it travels with "endorse," there is an argument that they didn't mean to prohibit a lawful referential use. I don't think that can be said for the Mininet license. I think the intentions may have been good with the Mininet license, but done in a way that probably crosses the line. > > As for this clause, I found that the W3C license (which is listed as a > good license for Fedora) contains an almost identical one: > https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231. Indeed, thanks, that is definitely worth considering when assessing this license. Richard _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
