3 Mar
2011
3 Mar
'11
6:06 p.m.
On Thursday 03 March 2011 20:55:13 Timothy Pearson wrote:
It's quite simple really. We have no legal right
to use the trademark
"KDE" for anything.
As I know, different distributions used the KDE trade mark even with heavily
patched KDE with different software included and different artwork. If it is
a registered trade mark, possibly there are some usage rules that permit
third parties to deliver patched KDE without changing the trade mark or
explicit permission?
I think Trinity even if achieves high rate of development will still be a
modified KDE3, won't it?
And I saw no project that used however heavily modded KDE under a separate
branding...
KDE e.V. has graciously cut us some slack during this
transitional period, but they could easily demand full removal of all of
their trademarks at any time (e.g. if this project starts actually
competing with KDE4 for some reason).