Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | 14 Mar 2003 16:28:09 +0000 |
| |
Hi,
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 16:21, John Jasen wrote:
> > > Let's try a little simple substitution since you seem to be needing coffee > > > this morning: > > > > > > "Red Cap: a proprietary Red Hat clone" > > > "The goal of this system is to produce a system compatible with Red Hat" > > Check with your lawyers again, since Red Hat has posted in the past that > 'similar' namings would be chased after. I think the example they used was > 'Pink Fedora'.
Having a product name "confusingly similar" to another one _is_ grounds for trademark action. See Lindows, Mobilix etc. (And yes, of course, it's a very subjective thing in many cases.)
But simply comparing one product to another is not the same.
I'd expect using a name like "BitBucket" to be much more at risk of being a trademark infringement than merely claiming that a project "aims to be BitKeeper compatible" or "can read BitKeeper repositories."
Cheers, Stephen
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |