2009/1/30 Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > They advised that the same advice applies to Documentation. > > Never use "tm" or "(R)". If we are obliged by contract to mention other > trademarks in a legend, add the legend as required by the contract. > > In addition, our documentation should contain the disclaimer: "All > other trademarks are the property of their respective owners." > > ~spot Just a question here: Since some of the contributors to fedora live/are located outside of the usa, should they be "restricted" by the us trade mark law? The code cannot be patented as a sequnce of mathematical formulas making a given hardware to work in a definite way. Maybe not complying to these rules could lead to packages being not redestributed with fedora but they are still fedora-"legal" packages. So putting them in rpm-fussion or other repos can circumvent this don't-put-the-TM/R-symbol-in-your-description-policy. Since these packages are bound to those trademarked names/patented devices there should be a way to say thier proper name (fair use). Software written to work with logithek should be described as such, because the vendor decided to call thier product logithek. I don't see another way to say this without the trademarked name. And of course: All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
