Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Need to pay to use the word "Linux" in commercial products/services! | From | Jon Masters <> | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:24:42 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 22:57 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:39:27 +0000 > andy <rootstrap@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I found it a bit strange that the word "Linux" has to be licensed! > > The "word" is protected under GPL v2, as it is appear first in 1991 > > in GPL code. Trademarks and Patents are not allowed in GPL! > > The registration of the name at later point of time, and now the > > licensing terms are very confusing to me, could someone help > > me to understand better please? > > The GPL protects copyrights not trademarks. The Linux trademarking is an > interesting question and I know a lot of companies take the view that the > mark is unenforcable. On the other hand it stops abuse of the name for > other unrelated software.
Personally, I love washing my clothes with Linux detergent :)
They tell me it's also a popular Operating System kernel.
Jon.
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