[SlugLUG] Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Released

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Sean Kellogg (skellogg at gmail.com):

> The issue here is one of trademarks, which is a whole separate issue from 
> copyrights.  The Mozilla Corp|Foundation has a trademark in both the firefox 
> logo and the word "firefox" as applied to browsers.  The GPL is silent on the 
> topic of trademarks and Mozilla has not granted a blanket right to use the 
> term.

Of course, there's a widespread misconception that you need a trademark
owner's permission merely to use the owned mark at all.  The owners do
their best to perpetuate this myth.  See Cory Doctorow's explanation:

http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/08/14/trademarks.html

> They only allow it to be used if you comply with certain standards...

Case in point.

More at:  "Trademark Law" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Licensing_and_Law