On 7/29/10 7:56 AM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 23:48:57 -0400, > Paul Allen Newell<pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> If doing a "black-box" only job of "reverse engineering" requires one to >> load memory with a trademark, how does this fall into the realm of >> acceptable? >> > There was a court case where a company was using a copyrighted phrase > for access control. A competitor won when they also used the same phrase > for access control purposes. > > That was a long time ago and people seemed to feel that when a customer > bought something, they owned it. In today's environment that case might > have gone differently. > > Bruno: Thank you for the additional background ... especially the "long time ago" qualification. Paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
