On 10/05/2010 12:37 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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. Close source school of thinking - Trademarks exist to protect an enterprise's product and to close out "copyiers". FLOSS exists to enable people "to share". > 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'. The overwhelming majority of FLOSS project think differently. They are proud of others picking up their works and to redistribute it. Or differently: GCC, KDE, QT, GNOME etc. all benefit from them not applying trademark restrictions, but from being used (in modified versions) on dozens of OSes, distributions etc. That said, Fedora's leadership is proud of having pushed Fedora into isolation. Ralf -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
