From: Danny S. <dan...@cl...> - 2006-08-30 20:43:46
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>=20 > Keith, >=20 > Can you take a look at this? I'm afraid that we can't stop them from=20 > calling their package mingw as we there is no legal trademark on it. >=20 > Earnie >=20 <snip header> > Hi Earnie, >=20 > thinking about the whole "u++-ld" issue, now I got afraid=20 > about another=20 > thing... >=20 > We distribute altered (with our ld and ar) and vastely stripped mingw=20 > with U++, still calling it 'mingw'. Well, there are not mingw labels=20 > all around, but the package is named '*-mingw' and all is stored in=20 > 'mingw' directory. The main reason is that we want to give a full=20 > credit to the work of mingw team. >=20 > Is this OK with mingw team? As long as they are providing sources, as well as binaries they can do = that. There are lots of mingw's floating around now. Some of them come = with lots of support. There is a 64 bit version in the works, with no = support. There is my one which get distributed to my friends. If we = want to "brand" the mingw.orgs one as "official" in some sense, we could = do that but I'm not sure how we could protect the brand anyway. =20 >=20 > In fact, I believe mingw is just the name of windows api layer and is=20 > public domain, am I right? >=20 > Mirek >=20 >=20 >=20 > ----- End forwarded message ----- >=20 >=20 >=20 > Earnie Boyd >=20 http://shop.siebunlimited.co -------------------------------------------------------------------------= Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, = security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make = your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based = on Apache Geronimo = http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=3Dlnk&kid=3D120709&bid=3D263057&dat=3D= 121642 _______________________________________________ MinGW-dvlpr mailing list Min...@li... = https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-dvlpr --=20 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.7/433 - Release Date: = 8/30/2006 =20 |
From: Mohan E. <gnu...@th...> - 2006-08-31 03:37:32
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Danny> If we want to "brand" the mingw.orgs one as "official" in some sense, Danny> we could do that but I'm not sure how we could protect the brand anyway. IANAL, but you might want to look into this if only from the point of view of stopping someone else from hijacking the MinGW name further along the line. The mere act of calling something trademarked protects it in the US, but I'm not sure how things would work given that you haven't previously done it. Maybe now's the time to start. -- Mohan Embar http://www.thisiscool.com/ http://www.animalsong.org/ |