No trademarks in upstream source
No trademarks in upstream source
Posted Mar 4, 2025 18:10 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)In reply to: No trademarks in upstream source by Wol
Parent article: Fedora discusses Flatpak priorities
Quite the contrary. I do not want to defraud anyone. If upstream does not want that I distribute modified versions, I will not do it. But then I will not consider the software FOSS. That is as simple as that.
Posted Mar 4, 2025 19:50 UTC (Tue)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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So why don't you care that *your* *downstream* has no idea of the true origin of the software in question? It's morally indefensible (and quite likely illegal) to misrepresent someone else's software as your own; so why do you consider it perfectly acceptable to misrepresent your software as someone else's? That's what I mean about defrauding your own downstream.
(And that's why trademarks got dragged into this, that is exactly what trademarks are for.)
Cheers,
No trademarks in upstream source
Wol