FreeBSD Palemoon branding violation

[Chris H]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2018 15:37:54 +0100 "Andreas Andersson" <a.andersson.thn at gmail.com> said

> So, moonchild (that's his actual name (or tilltalsnamn in swedish) ) might
> own the trademark. But atleast Swedish trademark laws
> https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/svensk-forfattningssamling/varumarkeslag-20101877_sfs-2010-1877
> grants usage to other parties as long as "other parties" does not make
> money off of the name or the product. For him to actually enforce this it
> has to be registered by the swedish PRV http://www.prv.se and subsequently
> worldwide  by wipo. I've looked through PRVs database and nor does a search
> on his name, full name or the variations of pale moon turn up any results
> in a search.
> 
> Not saying we should keep this in ports tree and keep using the name. Just
> stating that there is nothing he could do about it unless he registers the
> trademark and get's it registered (varumärkesskyddat in swedish.).
> 
> The reaction to the repo in question is also very weird to me, and possibly
> what worries me the most. He is hurting his own trademarked (heh) product
> by doing this.
For the record; the name Pale Moon is owned by the Blue Moon Ale Company,
and has been in their use for some 20 years. As well as Kassiks Pale Moon Ale,
Kassiks Brewery; Kenai, Alaska (retired).
The assertion by the PaleMoon Browser author/maintainer,... is _completely_
unfounded. He can NOT claim copyright/ownership of the name, as he claims.
Nor has he attained as much.

Just trying to keep it real. :-)

--Chris
> 
> 2018-02-07 10:28 GMT+01:00 Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu>:
> 
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > After your recent harassment of OpenBSD
> > > > (https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86) I decided to
> > > > investigate our own packaging of Palemoon. As expected, we are also
> > > > building against system libraries. You can review our build log
> > > > here:
> > >
> > > Huh. I would have nuked the port after about the 5th post in that
> > > thread.
> >
> > While I'm also surprised about the interpretation of the open
> > source spirit, I'm also a very satisfied palemoon user right now,
> > after the latest firefox changes. So I'm happy that we try to
> > keep palemoon, even if we call it newmoon 8-}
> >
> > If there's something I can do to help (test etc), I'll try...
> >
> > --
> > pi at opsec.eu            +49 171 3101372                         2 years to
> > go !
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