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On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:27:01AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 11:02, David Johnston wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:55 -0400, William Warren wrote:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529
what's everyone's thoughts on this one?
Trademarks must be enforced or they disappear. If the trademark on "Linux" were to disappear, Linus would not be able to stop anyone from calling anything Linux.
Yet the GPL explicitly gives anyone the right to fork the Linux kernel into anything they want as long as they meet the GPL requirements. Odd paradox there, given the requirement to retain proper copyright notices...
That has absolutely nothing to do with the GPL. Is is a Trademark on the NAME. Feel free to fork the code and name it something else, and you won't have any trademark related problems.
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