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Open licences need a "no passing off" clause

Open licences need a "no passing off" clause

Posted Jul 21, 2011 3:36 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
In reply to: Open licences need a "no passing off" clause by dbruce
Parent article: VLC and unwelcome redistributors

Why can't they just grant a trademark license to all the main Linux distributions? (subject to reasonable conditions about the changes, such as not intentionally malicious and not regressing a testsuite)


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