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Fortunately it was resolved. Don't know if contacting someone at TPF or Japan Perl Association might be helpful here?
TPF - http://www.perlfoundation.org
JPA - http://japan.perlassociation.org
Lestrrat (Daisuke Maki, author of the trademark blog post) contact details can be found on his MetaCPAN page - https://metacpan.org/author/DMAKI
It's unclear from this whether or not Python would have to change the name of the programming language if they didn't get the trademark, or whether this UK company would just have the right to call their products "Python" too. Early in the article it says: "There is a company in the UK that is trying to trademark the use of the term "Python" for all software, services, servers... pretty much anything having to do wit…
Good point! I guess it would be fine as long as the UK company does not gain exclusive rights to Python, I don't think that would be possible with EU law though, I'm pretty sure you can't get a trademark for the name of an animal.
I could get the trade mark for python for software, but would be unlikely to get the mark for snake-keeping services, to give a rough example.
Wow, this won't suffice? http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=python http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=python+software
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Sue us and your license is revoked" is quite a reasonable provision, IMHO. Edit: if you're going to down-vote, at least read my clarification below.
It's not at all - that means you're ceding many rights to the authors of the software. Suppose I want to use open source X from Company Y, and they had that provision. Then I find that Company Y is pirating my software, slandering, hacking our servers - if I sue them, I now lose my license? Why would I build on something that lets the owner act against me with relative impunity (assuming the software is something cri…
I am from the UK and been programming in Python since before that domain was registered and happy to help. Am I missing something, if you go to Amazon.co.uk and search for "python" (not just in books, but a top level saerch) - (e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%... ) the top results are all books about the Python programming language published in the UK. Similarly search for "Python" on…
Are there similar books in German, Italian, French, and Spanish?
I am from the UK and been programming in Python since before that domain was registered and happy to help. Am I missing something, if you go to Amazon.co.uk and search for "python" (not just in books, but a top level saerch) - (e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%... ) the top results are all books about the Python programming language published in the UK. Similarly search for "Python" on…
Thanks - this is a great thought. Our UK lawyers are going to be receiving a pretty decent Python library. :) Are there similar books in German, Italian, French, and Spanish?
Wow, this won't suffice? http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=python http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=python+software
I'd go with a date range like http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=python&hl=en&sa=X&#...