Trademarks

Kaleb S. KEITHLEY kaleb at keithley.org
Thu Mar 18 16:23:34 PST 2004


Jim Gettys wrote:

> 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.
>                                     - Jim

You can add an $XdotOrg CVS tag.

I was adding them to the files I edited but people complained about it 
making more work for them to integrate the changes into their on source 
trees.

--

Kaleb




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