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On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 18:45 -0400, Paul wrote:
> What I was suggesting is that the trademarked name should not be used as 
> the name of a gpl package if you want to control its usage by distros or 
> individuals. I never heard of this before with gpl programs. You 
> download foo.tar.gz and build foo. The distros produce foo.rpm and 
> foo.deb packages.

Ahh I think I understand now.  That would be hard to enforce if you
release it gpled.  Trying to control the trademark that way would be
counter to the license, and if you sued becuase someone did that it
*might* cause you to lose your trademark (I dont know what would happen
I havent heard of a single case where that did happen with open souce).



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