On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 07:47:43PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Eric Dorland wrote: > > * Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > the last sentence in DFSG #4 only talks about renaming, not being > > > forced to change content.
> > If I change the name of my program, I also change all references to > > that name in program (if for no other reason, consistency). > You should change them when it makes sense to you. However, being > forced to do so by the trademark license when it doesn't make sense to > you is another thing entirely.[1] > Imagine suddenly having to go and rip out every single reference to > the name of a program, some of which could be intricately tied into > the codebase; or a library that required you to rename all symbols > bearing the name of the library, and thus change any symbols that the > library exported. ... which isn't covered by trademark law anyway, so could only be enforced by an over-reaching copyright license, which is non-free. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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