Trademarks

Egbert Eich eich at pdx.freedesktop.org
Thu Mar 18 09:07:37 PST 2004


Jim Gettys writes:
 > I also checked my notes from talking with Scott Peterson.
 > 
 > When they are an attribution
 > of where the file came from, they are perfectly fine and can
 > be left alone; but as we change files, we should replace them.
 > 
 > The point of trademark law is to avoid confusion with the trademark
 > owner; so in this case, when the file is unchanged, it is an
 > attribution; but when we change the file, we should change the
 > CVS tag, so that it is clear it is something we've changed.

OK, does this mean we need to remove XFree86 cvs tags from files
that we have touched? This could be automated, however it is non-trivial
as these CVS tags tend to pollute the results ;-)
I need to think about a script.

Egbert.



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