| From: | "Peter Galbavy" <peter(dot)galbavy(at)knowtion(dot)net> |
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| To: | "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "David Costa" <geeks(at)dotgeek(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Jacob Hanson" <jacdx(at)jacobhanson(dot)com>, <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying |
| Date: | 2004-04-06 14:15:57 |
| Message-ID: | 008801c41be1$af11afe0$24e0a8c0@sonylaptop |
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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
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