On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:06 PM IƱaki Ucar <iucar(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 18:10, Richard Fontana <rfontana(a)redhat.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 9:44 PM Pamela Chestek <pchestek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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