[haiku] Re: Some minor suggestions to the Distro Guidelines.
- From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:13:36 -0700
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 23:51 +0100, Nicholas Blachford wrote:
> I mentioned I had some suggestions and I was going to send an email.
> Don't know if anyone was waiting for it but if you were, I should
> point out that I've changed strategy. Since I'll be at BeGeistert
> this week end I'm going to present them instead :-)
>
> As for the discussion on not making it easy to make distros, that is
> up to the developers.
Since it was nobody else but the developers who stated this stance --
both in the past as well as on this thread -- what is exactly the point
of your observation?
> However, if you deliberately make it difficult
> to remove trademarks it could then be argued you are not making enough
> effort to protect them.
> I don't know about trademark law but you are legally required to
> protect copyrights, you lose them if you don't. If the same is true
> for trademarks, by making it difficult to remove them, you are
> potentially handing any trademark infringer a *very* powerful weapon
> to use against you.
I think you misunderstood: this is not about making it easier or more
difficult to remove anything. It is simply a matter of who does the work
that has to go into creating a distro, and that should be, naturally,
the distro maker. This would be no ground for violating a trademark; if
somebody made such claim, it would only be an indefensible excuse.
Regards,
Jorge/aka Koki
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