Rick Welykochy <r...@praxis.com.au> wrote: > If it is found that PTFS makes any changes to the source code and distributes > those changes to their customers, then under the GPL they are bound to > make those changes available to the public.
The GPL doesn't require immediate publication. Rather, modifiers have to license the changes to the public and also make them available to their users. If PTFS isn't contributing back, we need helpful PTFS customers to share the improvements with the community. [...] > IANAL, but it would appear that issues relating to logo and name hijacking > are more complex to deal with, since we are getting into the area of > trademarks. > Has the Koha project registered a trademark? Some of the developers hold trademarks (registered and unregistered) until the Koha project has suitable legal person(s) to hold them itself. I think calling one's business Koha has always been discouraged (Koha was one of our(TTLLP's) first products and LibLime's too, and neither of us trades as Koha) and wilful commercial infringement of the trademarks is a crime in all WTO countries (Article 61 of the TRIPs agreement). Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha.org http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
