From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:57:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030314185724.GB14273@wiggy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1047658281.2566.101.camel@sisko.scot.redhat.com>
Previously Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> I would distinguish this from someone who is promoting their own
> product, let's call it BillyBob's Linux, and who makes a claim
> that it is "compatible with Red Hat Linux." So long as the
> compatibility statement is not used prominently in the
> advertising of the product and so long as the statement is, in
> fact, true, this would likely constitute a fair use of our mark,
> roughly along the lines of comparative advertising.
In this case the 'advertising' does prominently mention BitKeeper (in
fact that is the whole reason for its existance). And it is compatible
with (bits of) BitKeeper. So it seems your lawyers agree with Larry.
Wichert.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-14 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-14 10:51 Pavel Machek
2003-03-14 11:19 ` Murray J. Root
2003-03-14 11:50 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-03-14 13:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-03-14 14:43 ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-14 16:10 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-14 15:14 ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-14 16:11 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-03-14 16:21 ` John Jasen
2003-03-14 16:28 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-03-14 16:37 ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-14 16:56 ` Linux-kernel-revision-control list (was: Re: Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you) Christian Daudt
2003-03-15 2:29 ` Joshua Kwan
2003-03-16 7:56 ` Josef Roehrl
2003-03-14 17:09 ` Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you Davide Libenzi
2003-03-14 18:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-14 18:48 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-03-14 17:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-03-14 21:12 ` Mike Galbraith
2003-03-15 0:59 ` Stephen Satchell
2003-03-14 18:57 ` Wichert Akkerman [this message]
2003-03-14 20:49 ` Roger Luethi
2003-03-14 21:55 ` Eric Sandall
2003-03-15 0:56 ` Stephen Satchell
2003-03-15 3:36 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-15 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-16 0:57 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-16 5:01 ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-03-14 16:29 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-14 15:29 ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-14 16:43 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-14 16:43 ` Tom Sightler
2003-03-14 16:58 ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-14 17:56 ` Tom Sightler
2003-03-14 18:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-03-14 17:44 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-14 20:37 ` Teodor Iacob
2003-03-14 18:29 ` Brian McGroarty
2003-03-14 20:33 ` Teodor Iacob
2003-03-14 21:32 ` Brian McGroarty
2003-03-14 12:06 ` Matthias Andree
2003-03-14 15:38 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-14 16:00 ` Mark Mielke
2003-03-14 16:03 ` Larry McVoy
2003-03-14 16:30 ` Mark Mielke
2003-03-14 23:13 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-03-14 13:42 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-14 14:33 ` Never ever send Pavel private mail unless you want him to publish it Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-03-14 14:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-03-14 16:13 ` Mark Mielke
2003-03-17 0:16 ` Stuart MacDonald
2003-03-17 0:44 ` Tim Smith
2003-03-17 8:43 ` Helge Hafting
2003-03-17 0:57 ` Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-03-17 2:16 ` Stuart MacDonald
2003-03-17 2:16 ` David Lang
2003-03-17 4:37 ` Vlad@geekizoid.com
2003-03-17 6:21 ` Oliver Xymoron
2003-03-17 14:56 ` Vlad@geekizoid.com
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[not found] ` <20030314184009$6d9e@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030314184009$548a@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <20030314184009$69b1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-14 21:48 ` Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you Florian Weimer
2003-03-15 0:49 ` John Alvord
2003-03-15 7:51 ` Florian Weimer
2003-03-15 14:32 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
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