For Approval: Microsoft Permissive License
'Rick Moen'
rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Oct 7 09:30:57 UTC 2007
Quoting Philippe Verdy (verdy_p at wanadoo.fr):
> This is not a hypothetical case.
Oh? Someone's offering for sale a boxed set of open-source software
with a sticker saying "Microsoft Public Licensed"? Where precisely can
I find that, then?
> Such system also protects mere designations of a product, and we can find
> laws that is protecting consumers from fake designations in advertising. But
> the problem is to be able to prove that the designation is fake:
Your rather peculiar[1] hypothetical -- and, yes, it's a hypothetical --
does not involve designation of origin (or of anything else besides
licensing). It just doesn't.
Please stop inventing phony trademark and quasi-trademark issues. This
is a waste of time.
[1] Another poster has already pointed out, separately, that your
particular described hypothetical wording ("Microsoft Public Licensed")
is rather odd _and_ quite unlikely to be used.
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