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It doesn't matter, trademark law requires you to pro-actively prosecute violators if you want to keep your trademark. Although I still wish Canonical was more
by Flimm 13y ago
It doesn't matter, trademark law requires you to pro-actively prosecute violators if you want to keep your trademark.
Although I still wish Canonical was more transparent about who gets to use its trademarks and who doesn't: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/394328 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/394328
sp332: You're right, although it's not clear to me that this definitely is not a violation. I hope it isn't for the sake of free speech.
- sp332 13y agoIt doesn't require you to threaten people who don't violate your trademark, but they did anyway.
- NateDad 13y agoShow me where in their message there were any threats.
- tedunangst 13y agoHow fun. It doesn't require you to send requests to people who don't violate your trademark, but they did anyway.
- sp332 13y agoIt was very polite, and props to them for that. But that doesn't mean there were no threats. to use the Ubuntu trademarks and Ubuntu word in a domain name would require approval from Canonical... Unfortunately, in this instance we cannot give you permission to use Ubuntu trademarks... This has a big "OR ELSE" implicit in it. Requiring means enforcing.