[ros-dev] Vote: Allow 3rd-party distribution of ROS through XDCC Bot.

[Michael Trausch]

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Steven Edwards wrote:

> Hi,
> --- Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Just put a trademark on the name but allow it to be used on
>>derivations on the circumstance that it clearly shows that it is not
>>_the_ ReactOS.
> 
> 
> I have looked in to this a bit with the legal council I have on retainer as part of the ReactOS
> Foundation work. I think it is around $250 to file in a state and around $1000 to file the federal
> paperwork. I will call the lawyer this week and get numbers and a timeframe on what it would take
> to make it happen.
> 

If you guys really wanted to, you could hold the trade mark and tell
people that they MUST come up with a different name for any
distribution where the ReactOS setup isn't exactly as it comes from
something like, say, SourceForge.  This way, someone could
distribute a ReactOS CD with the vanilla installer plus other
applications (e.g., Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird, a Jabber
client, WinPT, and other stuff, because we can).

Or, someone could do something like Dropline does with GNOME, but
call it something entirely different, and put in small print
somewhere that "the product is a deritive work of ReactOS" because
due to that and the license that ReactOS is, this would require the
source that makes it a deritive work to be published, as well, and
if I'm not mistaken, the user must be able to get the source in the
same format as the binary, so it would be easier for them to just
include everything all at once.

Just my two cents.

	Later,
	Mike

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