On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 20:38, Carlos Morgado wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:45:50, Eric Baudais wrote: > > > >X. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES > > > >WARRANTIES AGAINST VIOLATION OR INFRINGEMENT OF TRADEMARK, LITERARY, OR > > > >PERSONAL RIGHTS, OR OTHER PROPRIETARY RIGHTS. > The disclaim of IP violations a > priori might even be consider bad faith. > Also, under such a strict agreement I at least expect a note of > responsibility over the foundation's IP claims on licensed material. Not that > I'd underwrite to such an agreement anyway ;) This is a case of Trademark, which is an artificial right which has granted the GNOME Foundation certain dispositions about the registered mark in cause. Please stop here, right now. There is no "IP". You are falling in a bottomless pit where you don't know what you're talking about and add confusion to everyone else if you keep mixing things that don't exist with clear scope restricted laws. > > liable for anyone who we give permission to use the trademark for a > > benign purpose and then violate a local law and held us responsible! > > I think this limitation of warranty clause is one of the few good > > parts. IANAL but I'm also from Portugal. As far as I can tell, though, you're required a two year warranty in purchased general goods. How does that requirement fit with trademark? Hugs, Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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