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Message-Id: <1227659082.3744.5.camel@jcmlaptop> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:24:42 -0500 From: Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: andy <rootstrap@...glemail.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Need to pay to use the word "Linux" in commercial products/services! On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 22:57 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:39:27 +0000 > andy <rootstrap@...glemail.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I found it a bit strange that the word "Linux" has to be licensed! > > The "word" is protected under GPL v2, as it is appear first in 1991 > > in GPL code. Trademarks and Patents are not allowed in GPL! > > The registration of the name at later point of time, and now the > > licensing terms are very confusing to me, could someone help > > me to understand better please? > > The GPL protects copyrights not trademarks. The Linux trademarking is an > interesting question and I know a lot of companies take the view that the > mark is unenforcable. On the other hand it stops abuse of the name for > other unrelated software. Personally, I love washing my clothes with Linux detergent :) They tell me it's also a popular Operating System kernel. Jon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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