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

[Marc Paré]

>>> 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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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