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Steven Edwards wrote:
Hi, --- Mike Swanson mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com wrote:
Just put a trademark on the name but allow it to be used on derivations on the circumstance that it clearly shows that it is not _the_ ReactOS.
I have looked in to this a bit with the legal council I have on retainer as part of the ReactOS Foundation work. I think it is around $250 to file in a state and around $1000 to file the federal paperwork. I will call the lawyer this week and get numbers and a timeframe on what it would take to make it happen.
If you guys really wanted to, you could hold the trade mark and tell people that they MUST come up with a different name for any distribution where the ReactOS setup isn't exactly as it comes from something like, say, SourceForge. This way, someone could distribute a ReactOS CD with the vanilla installer plus other applications (e.g., Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, a Jabber client, WinPT, and other stuff, because we can).
Or, someone could do something like Dropline does with GNOME, but call it something entirely different, and put in small print somewhere that "the product is a deritive work of ReactOS" because due to that and the license that ReactOS is, this would require the source that makes it a deritive work to be published, as well, and if I'm not mistaken, the user must be able to get the source in the same format as the binary, so it would be easier for them to just include everything all at once.
Just my two cents.
Later, Mike
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