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[Sean DALY]

Sure — Sugar Labs restricted the "freedom" of a Windows PC reseller in the
UK to market "Sugar computers". We made the effort to register and defend
our trademark in the interest of the project. I recall having alerted OLPC
when I spotted a potential infringement of their xo trademark — a nearly
identical design used by a European bank. Their counsel decided not to
pursue it, as the registered Nice classes were different. This would have
changed if the bank had marketed software.

A good primer on copyright and trademark issues for free/libre software can
be found here:
https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/foss-primer.html#x1-660005.4.2

Sean.


Le jeu. 14 sept. 2017 à 09:02, Sebastian Silva <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
a écrit :

> On 14/09/17 08:00, Sean DALY wrote:
> > Sebastian — these principles apply to copyright, not trademarks,
> > patents, or trade secrets.
> >
> > Sean
> Sean,
>
> Principles apply universally.
>
> What you mean is that Software Freedom is based on copyright law, not
> trademark law.
>
> I understand this. However Trademark is often used to limit user's
> freedoms.
>
> Regards,
> Sebastian
>
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