Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he doesn't own

Re:Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he does... by iamcreasy on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:32PM (#28361117)

This is one of your comment from the Github thread,

> ...which affords certain protections under US trademark law and has enabled elementary to prevent people from distributing other items under our brand name—but regardless this issue is in no way a legal threat as much as you want to insinuate...

Honesty, it looks like a legal threat to me despite claiming otherwise given your other comments on the Github thread have been on the legality of your request.

Also, claiming the repo owner has a poor understanding of trademark law when you are not a lawyer reflects poorly on you. If you wanted to change their name to "Unofficial elementaryOS Tweaks" - just ask nicely without getting into legal gobbledygook.

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Re:Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he does... by ISV_Damocles on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:50PM (#28361298)

That's actually the edited version, the original one stated:

> ...which affords certain protections under US trademark law and has enabled elementary to prevent people from distributing other items under our brand name—but I absolutely do not want to go the legal threat route

Which is much more of an "it'd be a shame if something happened" kind of phrasing.

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Re:Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he does... by NotEvil on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @03:18AM (#28364846)

Yeah, but it also clearly states that they don't want to go the legal threat route. So I don't know. I think that thsi think was clearly mishandled by both sides

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