On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 05:32:38PM -0700, Carl Sorensen wrote: > On 12/17/10 4:15 PM, "James Lowe" <james.l...@datacore.com> wrote: > > > Lilybuntu is a great name! > > It is, and I'd like to be able to keep it. But the Ubuntu people are pretty > clear about how they want to see their trademark used.
Yes. > We could also come up with our own name that didn't include "buntu", and > we'd be safe from the trademark threat potential. This is my preference. We're creative people. We don't need to play games with music copyright or trademarks. > > We can call it what we like in our docs surely? As long as we state it is a > > remixed version of Ubuntu blah blah blah... > > Well, we can do whatever we'd like. But we'll have to be responsive if > Canonical asks us to respect their trademark. We'd have to be reponsive, either by changing the name, or by challenging them in court. But starting a pissing match with a major linux distribution is hardly going to help us. > What about if we came up with some other name that wouldn't cause trademark > problems? I was thinking along the lines of lily-contrib lily-contributer > We could also call it lilypuntu, since they only claim trademark to words > ending in "BUNTU". Juse move the splice one character to the right. It > even sounds almost the same, but is spelled differently. No, that's just thumbing our nose at them. > We could also change the part of the name we put in our remix. Instead of > lilybuntu we could call it ubulily. What about just ulily ? of course, the ulinux people might object to that... but I like the connotation of "you" in there. Or even combine them? ulilycontrib Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
