From: "Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@daniel.shahaf.name>
To: "TJ Luoma" <luomat@gmail.com>, "Zsh MailingList" <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Opensource.com Zsh article
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:33:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48dbc01e-78ad-4919-956e-556cd8df9598@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADjGqHv+ruW6hvDZLp9wyq28P3paYE3f0waJ1LpX4MdkzmGDQQ@mail.gmail.com>
TJ Luoma wrote on Fri, 20 Sep 2019 01:01 +00:00:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 8:07 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> > No malice it's just that you can't imagine Tim Cook asking you guys for permission to change
> > something. I wonder how that would play out.
>
> The history of Apple's previous interactions with open source projects
> would suggest this is unlikely.
>
> KHTML is probably the biggest example, and they contributed to it for
> awhile, but when they wanted to make their own version they forked it
> and gave it a different name (WebKit).
To elaborate on that: if Alice maintains an open source product and Bob
forks it, trademarks law requires that Bob rename the product before he
may distribute it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-20 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-17 22:29 Bart Schaefer
2019-09-18 0:39 ` TJ Luoma
2019-09-18 16:06 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-18 16:13 ` Jérémie Roquet
2019-09-18 16:37 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-18 16:54 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-09-18 17:05 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-18 17:17 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2019-09-18 19:23 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-18 22:37 ` Martijn Dekker
2019-09-19 1:43 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-19 16:08 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-09-19 17:32 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-19 18:04 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-09-19 19:40 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-19 22:33 ` Daniel Shahaf
2019-09-19 22:59 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-09-20 0:06 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-20 1:01 ` TJ Luoma
2019-09-20 3:51 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-20 13:33 ` Daniel Shahaf [this message]
2019-09-20 13:51 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-20 21:51 ` Bart Schaefer
2019-09-20 22:08 ` Ray Andrews
2019-09-21 8:21 ` Daniel Shahaf
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