Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying
От | Robert Treat |
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Тема | Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying |
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Msg-id | 1081261902.31791.51.camel@camel обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying ("Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>) |
Список | pgsql-advocacy |
On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 10:15, Peter Galbavy wrote: > 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. > And that's probably true if you acquire their software under their commercial license, but if you license it via the gpl, then that doesn't hold up. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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