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Re: Patch policy
Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
The logo *is* since it contains the words ECOS and ECOS is a registered
trademark of Red Hat. I should have been more specific: Under
trademark law, colour, style, font, case, etc all are ignored if the
text is trademarked. As such, the logo is just a stylised version of the
text and hence is covered by the ECOS trademark.
I wonder why I've never seen them use (R) with the logo. Evidently it's a
good thing IANAL then ;).
believe you that there may well have been handouts with the TM
superscript... in fact I've just looked and the stickers I have here
do have the TM I see. But the laxness in applying the TM as evidenced
by the existing public use of logos by Red Hat makes it very difficult
to enforce.
*Very* incorrect. Red Hat are *very* serious when it comes to defending
their trademarks, and the trademarks do not have to be registered as you
pointed out. Not just the "Red Hat" trademark but other trademarks
also. They have put companies out of business defending their trademark,
the most recent was last March (IIRC) when they closed down some
business that was selling versions of Linux with the same codename as
their latest release.
But that's presumably "passing off" which is not what we are doing. It's
impossible to pass sourceware eCos off as a discontinued product ;-). Not
that it could be, having been established by Red Hat, etc.etc.
And BTW, I believe you have to acknowledge trademarks by their owners. I
don't think you can get away with "All registered Trade Marks are the
property of their owners" anymore. Std practice though is to be told of
the infringement so you have the opportunity to put things right. Just
to be safe and proper, I do suggest you should put in a legal disclaimer.
I've done so by editting the footer, although it appears to be global to
the site, not just the front page. If you have a better idea please say
(or just go ahead and do as far as I'm concerned). e.g. if you know how to
add whole new pages to bugzilla.
Jifl
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