In fact this company seems to think it has a registered trademark on the word BASE. https://www.baseonline.com/about-us.html
That application is not a database front end development system so I suppose they don't really mind with regards to AOO or LO, that and it is rare to speak of Base as something separate, it is a module of Apache OpenOffice. Best wishes, Drew On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 7:40 PM Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 19:47 James Weil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A 3rd party developer, Menial Software ([email protected] <mailto: > > [email protected]>.,https://menial.co.uk/base/ < > https://menial.co.uk/base/>) > > is marketing a commercial SQLite database for the Mac as a commercial > > product and has named it ‘Base’. This can be at the least, potentially > > confusion to users of your free database product > > > Aren't you confusing trademarks with copyright? > > The is IMHO no copyright infringement unless we are talking about the same > source code being used. > > Trademarks, maybe, if someone registered "Base" but it's such a generic > word that I doubt it. > > Remember once upon a time the PC/DOS database standard was DBase. > > FC > > > > > >
