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"He has a license on the name Markdown" No, he doesn't. He has copyright on something, and he provides licenses to that copyright material on certain condition
by voyou 12y ago
"He has a license on the name Markdown"
No, he doesn't. He has copyright on something, and he provides licenses to that copyright material on certain conditions, which include the use of the name "Markdown". But if you're not using his copyright, you don't have to get permission from him, so what he thinks about your use of the term "Markdown" isn't legally relevant.
- mindcrime 12y agoso what he thinks about your use of the term "Markdown" isn't legally relevant. Not necessarily. He would have had a trademark on Markdown at some point (you don't even need to register a trademark to have one, IIRC, trademarks are established simply by use). So unless he's lost that trademark due to non-enforcement (which is a possibility) then what he thinks would matter if he felt the urge to litigate it. But legalities aside, from a moral perspective, I believe that people have an obligation to consider the wishes of the person who created and named Markdown originally.
- dragonwriter 12y ago> He would have had a trademark on Markdown at some point (you don't even need to register a trademark to have one, IIRC, trademarks are established simply by use). They are established by bona fide use as a trademark (a mark of origin of a specific product) in the ordinary course of commerce. Its not clear to me that Markdown was ever a trademark, and that if it was it hasn't been either abandoned (not using a mark in commerce can lose it) or lost through the term being allowed to become generic.