Hi, As you probably knows, Sage is also a company (http://www.sage.com). It provides financial or buisness software solution. In particular, the name "Sage" is a registered trademark at the Patent Office (UK) under the number 2387 (?). It concerns any software dealing with comptability and finance.
The french foundation framasoft (http://www.framasoft.net/) was in trouble with them in 2006 because of the publication of a notice concerning an extension of Firefox named "Sage" (to read RSS). The company wrote to them to clear the notice. But the law was not on the company side because the registration concerned only "financial software" ! (read the story in french at http://framablog.org/index.php/post/2006/12/18/Framasoft-pas-Sage or http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/33591-sage-framasoft-contrefacon.htm). What about SAGE for mathematics (there is a finance module) ? What is the interaction between the registered name by the company and the GPL ? Vincent --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
