KDE Apps name trademarks

[Michael Reeves]

As current  maintainer of kdiff3 I would oppose trade mark enforce ment.
Unless we have clear proof this is an altered version. I am perpared to
push out my own free download if noone in this community wants the job.
That will end the current problem quite nicely.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2020, 10:27 AM Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On 7/9/20 9:48 AM, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > On 2020-07-09 14:18, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 12:29, Christoph Cullmann
> >> <christoph at cullmann.io> wrote:
> >>
> >>> You might be able to do that, but as soon as you start to try to
> >>> keep
> >>> people
> >>> from using the names, the cost-free, bureaucracy-free and layer free
> >>>
> >>> zone ends.
> >>
> >> Sending an e-mail to the Microsoft store doesn't need to cost
> >> anything, and it would have more effect if there can be a claim of
> >> trademark.  Claiming copyright infringement as discussed on this
> >> thread is also sensible but it does need more work and will need at
> >> least the cost of buying kdiff3 from their store.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > sending just a mail will for sure not be enough, as the license allows
> > anybody to upload our stuff there.
> >
> > You can start to claim that the name is trademarked but then this will
> > only work if the other party doesn't claim it is not or that we don't
> > have
> > a policy that forbids to upload something with that name + get money
> > for it.
> I think the suggestion of a letter to Microsoft was about the potential
> copyright violation, not about trademark.  They could confirm whether or
> not there is an offer of source code within the package without having
> to buy it.
>
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