[tur-users] Ion3

Paul Mattal paul at mattal.com
Mon Apr 30 08:26:14 EDT 2007


This discussion is getting far afield. Tuomo's claim was not a copyright
claim it was a trademark claim.

> The package "ion3-darcs" [1] on AUR is infringing on the Ion3
> trademark. It is not Ion3 anymore, as it modifies the installed
> program in such a manner (by applying the Xft patch), that it 
> can not be considered the original product anymore, but a 
> competing one. The package must be renamed so that it can not
> be confused with Ion3(tm), or the Ion project. If this is not
> done, there may be legal repercurssions.

Some clarification is in order. Certainly nobody looking at a PKGBUILD
file would mistake it for the Ion3 source code or binaries.

Can you please explain what thing we have created and disseminated that
you believe will be confused with your Ion3 software product?

- P



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