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<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">What if they used it to promote a superior product? Sorry, couldn't resist. . . . :c)</font> </p>
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>>> Ian Turton <ijturton@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </p>
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On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas<br><jsanz@osgeo.org> wrote:<br><br>>> 2) will I get lawsuited if I have the osgeo compass in my PhD thesis<br>>> (available in the net) and in a couple of presentations I gave in the<br>>> last year at conferences (all available on slideshare)? It would be<br>>> bad to take them back, but if I have to...<br>>><br>><br>> I can't imagine no one in OSGeo law-suiting you because you've given<br>> credit to the Foundation on your projects, even doing it in a<br>> wrong-for-lawyers way.<br><br>The problem is not in you getting sued but if say a large closed<br>source GIS company started using the OSGEO logo to promote its<br>inferior product it would be harder for OSGEO to sue them as it had<br>not defended its logo in the past.<br><br>Ian<br>--<br>Ian Turton<br>_______________________________________________<br>Discuss mailing list<br>Discuss@lists.osgeo.org<br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br>
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