On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Agustin Gonzalez-Quel <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am reading the page where Telefónica offers this service and they are
> clearly breaking trademarks rules. For example, in the contract that they
> propose to customers, these are not allowed to copy the software (is it a
> property of Telefonica to prohibit software redistribution?). Also, in the
> contract Telefonica does not allow to create derivate works from the
> program, etc.
>

Trademark issues are different from code licensing.

Code licensing here depends IMHO on the contract details between their
providers, mainly, which is the relation (or not) with Sun.

About trademark, I don't know the details on how OOo tm is managed, so don't
have criteria here.


> My personal feeling is that a cease and desist letter is appropiate.
>

If violations are confirmed, I would suggest a constructive comunication,
strongly firm but open to solve the inapropiate situation. It could be an
interesting marketing (and funding?) opportunity.


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Ismael Olea

http://olea.org/diario/

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