Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 09:53:19 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogt.com> To: kpneal@pobox.com Cc: m.fujimoto@rocketmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: Message-ID: <20140316095319.3ee5864c@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <20140315164618.GA28642@neutralgood.org> References: <1394862552.77754.YahooMailBasic@web125805.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <53240450.8070308@FreeBSD.org> <20140315170858.d48c39ec2eb4a193e21917c4@rocketmail.com> <20140315165458.1b2a9ae6@fabiankeil.de> <1394900997.3587.176.camel@archlinux> <20140315164618.GA28642@neutralgood.org>
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Hi, On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:46:18 -0400 kpneal@pobox.com wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:29:57PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 16:54 +0100, Fabian Keil wrote: > > > Masayoshi Fujimoto <m.fujimoto@rocketmail.com> wrote: > > >=20 > > > > Even personal use, I need permission? > > >=20 > > > Legally it depends on the country you live in. > > >=20 > > > In many (most?) countries you do not need the FreeBSD foundation's > > > permission to use the logo on a T-shirt for personal use. > >=20 > > In German we have a saying for legal gray areas: "Wo kein Kl=E4ger, da > > kein Richter!" I didn't find a translation for this idiom. >=20 > I know about as much German as any other single-language native > English speaker. But there is the more general English expression > "Better safe than sorry." >=20 not really, the German translates more to 'no risk, no fun'. > Trademark law varies country to country. Under US law the owner of a > trademark is _required_ to protect that trademark or risk losing it in > court. Sometimes when trademark owners do this (by having a lawyer > send a letter) it gets very bad press on, for example, slashdot.org. > Lots of people end up talking about how eeeee-evil trademark owner > are because they did what they, under the law, were required to do. > So we have in those cases a no-win situation for the trademark owner. Was it Jack Daniel's which wrote a letter to an 'abuser' in the 'proper' way. The abuser was nicely told that he did something wrong and it was suggested to find a solution which fits both. This gave the brand a very positive image even by protecting its brand. Erich
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