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).