On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 06:41:29PM +0100, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Does it qualify as DFSG-free if you give it a free copyright licence
> without granting any kind of trademark licence?
Trademark license is orthogonal to copyright license.

Trademark laws are more like truth in advertising laws than anything
else -- they're aimed at preventing deception -- they don't prohibit
any non-deceitful uses or changes.  [That said, it's the trademark owner
who gets to define what's truthful use of the trademark, and what's not.]

Trademark license isn't specific to a piece of software -- it's specific
to a context.

-- 
Raul

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