From: fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes) Subject: Re: IMPORTANT: SLS status Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1993 17:30:43 GMT
Linus Torvalds (torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
: I think that what Peter is looking into is a "distribution" copyright:
: the programs included in the SLS distribution will naturally have the
: GPL apply to them *singly*, but the SLS distribution as a *package*
...
: other services. Putting the SLS under some kind of copyright would not
: hinder others from using the programs therein, it would just mean that
: Peter could try to have some kind of "quality-assurance" of the
: different packages that go under the name SLS - something that should be
: good for everybody.
Rather than copyright, trademark might solve this problem. Peter could
"enforce" (where enforce to me means make it clear this is his intention
and expose offenders) his trademark on SoftLanding Software. Thus,
someone could only sell an SLS package if it was infact an SLS package,
not a copy of an SLS package. This would not prevent them from selling
the programs (or giving them away for that matter), it would just mean
they couldn't claim it was an SLS package.
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