From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17540 invoked by alias); 7 May 2003 23:39:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17533 invoked from network); 7 May 2003 23:39:20 -0000 Message-ID: <3EB99933.3060409@ecoscentric.com> Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 23:39:00 -0000 From: Alex Schuilenburg Organization: eCosCentric Limited User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, en-gb MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Larmour CC: Gary Thomas , eCos Maintainers , Alex Schuilenburg Subject: Re: Patch policy References: <1052225944.30126.4370.camel@hermes> <20030506132550.GK24032@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <3EB7CAAF.4050807@eCosCentric.com> <3EB96CDB.5080405@eCosCentric.com> <1052344447.30126.14197.camel@hermes> <3EB99066.1030502@eCosCentric.com> In-Reply-To: <3EB99066.1030502@eCosCentric.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-05/txt/msg00020.txt.bz2 Jonathan Larmour wrote: [...] > Interestingly, the main s.r.c eCos and redboot websites have _never_ > mentioned trademarks, nor has the logo ever had a (TM) superscript. The > logo isn't a registered trademark AFAIK, so RH's legal protection is > minimal. Incorrect. ECOS and the logo are *both* registered trademarks of Red Hat, so be careful there. The TM superscript does indeed exist for the logo on all handouts given away by Red Hat and Cygnus, and I have correspondence from Mark Webbink verifying this. > Of course the other strong argument is that Red Hat don't really have > any desire to make a fuss when the point is that they don't intend to > assert control over eCos any more. I agree with this, although I would seek Red Hat's permission and stump up the megacash they are asking if I were to use the logo in a commercial context. However, as a free open source project I don't believe Red Hat will object to its use in the context proposed. See my previous email... IANAL -- Alex