Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Peter Galbavy
Subject Re: Perpetuating the myth...annoying
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Msg-id 008801c41be1$af11afe0$24e0a8c0@sonylaptop
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In response to Perpetuating the myth...annoying  (Jacob Hanson <jacdx@jacobhanson.com>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Trademark law only says that you cannot use someone else's trademark
> to label a similar product.  Nothing there can stop you from using the
> product for any purpose including running benchmarks, or from
> reporting facts or opinions or lies about the product.  That is a
> matter of copyright law, press regulations and/or the criminal code.

I think the issue raised was that you may not be permitted, under their
software license, to use the software if the activity would be seen as
detrimental to their trademark - not the use of the trademark in any
publication post-benchmark etc.

Peter


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