On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 10:15, Peter Galbavy wrote:
> 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.
>
And that's probably true if you acquire their software under their
commercial license, but if you license it via the gpl, then that doesn't
hold up.
Robert Treat
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