Re:The Developer Formerly Known as FreeBSDGirl
by gravypod on Thursday December 31, 2015 @11:21PM
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> I could provide the tweets of the guy I spoke about, but to what end?
To provide credit to your claims, otherwise what you are doing is defamatory.
>Sources are: emails between myself, core, and the FreeBSD Foundation. I'm not providing those. A phone call with the FreeBSD Foundation, which I did not record and will not provide.
Sadly, none of that is verifiable from an outsider perspective.
>Instead, I hope people talk about the issues of harassment and legal shadiness regarding trademark claims.
This is the only thing I can claim to have an educated opinion on. Any entity who owns a trademark has the rights to ask you to stop representing their likeness. By using "freebsd" in your name and actively participating in politics surrounding the open source/FreeBSD community, you are representing their likeness and in this case you are not protected by fair use.
For example, I can't make a twitter called TacoBellGuy and post about food related politics. If Taco Bell got upset with me, I'd have to change my name. Very clear cut.
To provide credit to your claims, otherwise what you are doing is defamatory.
>Sources are: emails between myself, core, and the FreeBSD Foundation. I'm not providing those. A phone call with the FreeBSD Foundation, which I did not record and will not provide.
Sadly, none of that is verifiable from an outsider perspective.
>Instead, I hope people talk about the issues of harassment and legal shadiness regarding trademark claims.
This is the only thing I can claim to have an educated opinion on. Any entity who owns a trademark has the rights to ask you to stop representing their likeness. By using "freebsd" in your name and actively participating in politics surrounding the open source/FreeBSD community, you are representing their likeness and in this case you are not protected by fair use.
For example, I can't make a twitter called TacoBellGuy and post about food related politics. If Taco Bell got upset with me, I'd have to change my name. Very clear cut.