Jean-Yves,
If you REALLY intend to prohibit others from applying AZ's patch and 
redistributing it under the name "Mail Notification" in releases _after_ 5.4, 
you need to change certain things.

Using the sources downloaded here:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/mailnotify/mail-
notification-5.4.tar.bz2

MN 5.4 is released as found in  it's online help, section 9.3, Licensing: "This 
program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public license as 
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or 
(at your option) any later version. A copy of this license can be found at this 
link, or in the file COPYING included with the
 source code of this program." This is also what I have seen in the sources 
that I checked (I did not go through all of the files)

I've done this in the downloaded source tree:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mail-notification-5.4$ grep -nRi "trademark" *
COPYING:379:    e) Declining to grant rights under trademark law for use of some
COPYING:380:    trade names, trademarks, or service marks; or
help/C/documentation-license.xml:21:           products and services are 
claimed as trademarks. Where those
help/C/documentation-license.xml:24:           trademarks, then the names are 
in capital letters or initial
jbsrc/lib/COPYING:379:    e) Declining to grant rights under trademark law for 
use of some
jbsrc/lib/COPYING:380:    trade names, trademarks, or service marks; or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/mail-notification-5.4$

I only find the lines of section 7 of GPLv3, but have not found, as per
the same section: "If you add terms to a covered work in accord with
this section, you must place, in the relevant source files, a statement
of the additional terms that apply to those files, or a notice
indicating where to find the applicable terms."

I have not found, but I may well have missed it, the additional terms
related to your potential trademark.

Is MN v 5.4 GPLv3 "as published by the FSF" or is it governed by
(belgian ?) trademark law ? If the later, please remove references to
GPLv3 from the sources, documentation, and your website for your future
releases. A link to the trademark registration(s) would also be
appreciated.

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