Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Trademark law only says that you cannot use someone else's trademark
> to label a similar product. Nothing there can stop you from using the
> product for any purpose including running benchmarks, or from
> reporting facts or opinions or lies about the product. That is a
> matter of copyright law, press regulations and/or the criminal code.
I think the issue raised was that you may not be permitted, under their
software license, to use the software if the activity would be seen as
detrimental to their trademark - not the use of the trademark in any
publication post-benchmark etc.
Peter