[Mageia-discuss] Google, yahoo, Hotmail and Flickr accounts

Tue Sep 21 23:24:04 CEST 2010

Im a lawyer, altough i dont know US or EU laws; i think it will be a
+legal problem like Mandrake name case. We should immediately need to
+consider this. Also even name is not a legal matter than domain names
+could be give us headache.
+
+2010/9/22 Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>:
+>>>> While mageia.org is not the same as mageia.com, I expect
+>>>> a lot of users are going to accidentally go to the wrong
+>>>> site.
+>>>>
+>>>> Is this going to be potential legal problem?
+>>>>
+>>>> Regards, Dave Hodgins
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+>> Ohhh, that smells like..... Wach out!
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+>
+> I don't think we should worry about this right now. It has gone too far and
+> once we have the infrastructure up and going, changing names becomes a
+> trivial matter.
+>
+> It would surprise met if this were of any problems at all. A minerals
+> company found at mageia.com and a linux distro found at mageia.org are
+> simply too far apart in concept to be mistaken.
+>
+> It will become a problem if the term "Mageia" has been copywritten or
+> (heaven forbid) patented! by someone or a company.
+>
+> Having a site's name is not usually a problem. Laws differ depending of the
+> country you reside in. But they all seem to follow the same convention
+> (except for patent laws).
+>
+> Note that I am not a lawyer.
+>
+> Marc
+>
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