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Koha creators asking for help in trademark disputeKoha creators asking for help in trademark disputePosted Nov 22, 2011 19:36 UTC (Tue) by moguro (guest, #57475)In reply to: Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute by ajross Parent article: Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute
As koha is released under GNU GPL v2, the assertion that "...LibLime apparently owns the copyright to the Koha code" is utterly false.
The koha project's website is http://koha-community.org/, the koha.org website was usurped by ptfs/liblime.
More information can be found here:
http://mmitblog.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/about-the-koha-t...
and some background info here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/386284/
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Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute Posted Nov 22, 2011 20:02 UTC (Tue) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]
The GPL does not remove copyright, it depends on it. So code released under the GPL will still have copyright associated with it, it just has a different importance than for proprietary code.
Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute Posted Nov 22, 2011 20:43 UTC (Tue) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]
True, but the individual contributors hold the copyright, not LibLime alone.
Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute Posted Nov 22, 2011 21:59 UTC (Tue) by macc (subscriber, #510) [Link]
The topic is trademark not copyright.
Commercial entity LibLime is going for ownership of the trademark "Koha" in NZ.
IMHO a bad faith thing. ( and should be voided, usually you can't trademark a previously used by others tag as your own)
IANAL and all that jazz.
Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute Posted Nov 24, 2011 20:15 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] The topic is trademark not copyright. Actually, the topic of this subthread is copyright. It applies to the trademark master topic because if someone owns the copyright on X, it's powerful reason to believe that, when you look closer, you'll find he also owns the trademark people use to refer to X.
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