No trademarks in upstream source
No trademarks in upstream source
Posted Mar 3, 2025 7:08 UTC (Mon) by gdt (subscriber, #6284)In reply to: No trademarks in upstream source by NYKevin
Parent article: Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities
Further to this comment about trademarks, trademarks are not the only issue: there is the question of 'trade dress'. Unlike many packaging formats, Flatpak typically displays much of the trade dress used by the project. This was the essential point for OBS: the two Flatpaks were dressed so similarly that people were confusing the genuine product and the copy (a copyright-permitted copy, but a copy all the same). Fedora could perhaps make the trade dress of its own Flatpaks different enough to avoid this issue re-occuring.
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