| From: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Galbavy <peter(dot)galbavy(at)knowtion(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, David Costa <geeks(at)dotgeek(dot)org>, Jacob Hanson <jacdx(at)jacobhanson(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying |
| Date: | 2004-04-06 14:31:42 |
| Message-ID: | 1081261902.31791.51.camel@camel |
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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
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