Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules
by profmonocle on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:20PM
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Offering a product/service for free doesn't exempt it from trademark law. I couldn't make an open source word processor and call it "Microsoft Word".
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules
by jsprogrammer on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:35AM
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The US Federal Government only has the ability to regulate interstate commerce. Kik, the project, does not engage in commerce. Also, npm (the package manager) is not a commercial vehicle.
>I couldn't make an open source word processor and call it "Microsoft Word".
Sure you could, you just couldn't use it in commerce.