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This is a side issue, do I don't want to go too long with it. But \*NO\* we can't always give permission. The problem isn't how permissive PSF might like to be in the abstract, but trademark law itself. Trademark is "enforce it or lose it" ... Even passively allowing dilutive derivatives would cause us to lose control of the mark, i.e. we would not have legal authority to prohibit the misleading uses we actually care about preventing.
On May 29, 2017 2:32 AM, "Greg Ewing" <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
M.-A. Lemburg wrote:But it's always within the PSF's power to give that community
In my role as PSF TM committee member, it's often painful to have to
tell community members that they cannot use e.g. really nice looking
variants of the Python logo for their projects. Let's not add more
pain.
member permission to use that variant if they ask, is it not?
So you don't actually have to tell anyone that they can't
use anything.
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Greg
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