On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 01:38:46PM -0700, Auke Kok wrote: > On 09/20/10 13:25, Greg KH wrote: > >>> I hate to say it, but for all cases where legal issues are involved, > >>> please consult your lawyer. > >Hey, that's totally not fair here. > > > >This is being done by a community project, for which there are no > >lawyers. > > Perhaps, but said community person asks about something that neither > me nor pretty much anyone on this list can give a definitive answer > to, and you know that.
Then who/where should this be asked? > >If so, great, what's happening with a few distros that are shipping > >"MeeGo" without using ConMan? > > well, first you're going to get Marcel going after you for > misspelling connman :) Heh, ok, after that, I'm guessing that nothing is going to be done, so it's a moot point... > >If nothing, then fine, we'll just ignore the empty lawyer threats. > > > >If something, then great, what exactly are the rules that need to be > >followed here? > > That's the problem. I personally have no quarrel trying to come up > with a list of sanctioned names, but, that may be completely > irrelevant since your lawyer might just disagree with what my lawyer > says. And since I can't give legal information, I'm better off > saying "sorry, talk to your lawyer". Ok, point us to the Linux Foundation lawyer that we should be talking to that knows the rules of how the MeeGo naming/phrasing/usage are to be used, and we will be glad to discuss it with them. Otherwise, I think the name "Smeego, based on the spittle that came from the MeeGo(tm) release" looks like a nice phrase to use. > I'm not doing that to piss off everyone. I'm doing it so that people > understand that even people like me on the Intel MeeGo release team > probably can't even help you, even if we wanted to. Then WHO can help us? Pointers please. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
