Re: [Fsfe-uk] GPLv3 last days for comment, and other news links

[Jon Grant]

Does anyone think any "trademark torpedo" prevention clauses should be
added? The trademark issue being the one that allows a company (e.g. Red
Hat) to prevent redistribution "as is" of their offered packages.
Requiring any distributor (e.g. CentOS) to spend time hunting through
documentation and images for any trademarks, re-branding the package and
then retesting it.

I should add that with the example of CentOS, they mentioned this was
taking them weeks, but Red Hat have moved trademarked items into one
place now, which simplifies the task somewhat. The task does still exist
though, and is probably expensive to ensure its done completely each time.

Should the GPL protect against companies using trademarks to prevent
redistribution "as is" ?

Kind regards,
Jon
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