On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 11:08 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote: > That's what i've been saying all day. It's only free software if you > change the name, in which case you may loose brand recognition. > Imagine if Linus forbid people from calling their OS Linux if they > didn't use the binaries provided by him. that's the entire point of having trademarks. Free software projects are obliged to allow you to access and modify their code. They are not obliged to allow you to benefit from their reputation. It doesn't make any sense to say 'I think this product needs to be modified but I wish to be able to represent my modified product as being the same thing as the original product in order to benefit from the reputation attached to the original product'. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
