Please fix the trademark policy in regards to code

Richard Wordingham richard.wordingham at ntlworld.com
Wed Oct 7 08:41:15 CDT 2020


On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 15:02:38 +0200
Ellie via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> E.g. the Linux foundation puts the following:
> 
> "... Even when making fair use of a trademark, you should acknowledge
> the owner of the trademark with a trademark notice, such as the notice
> displayed on The Linux Foundation project websites."
> 
> I would find such a remark helpful, although the last sentence kind of
> makes it again sound like they expect me to put (R) into the source
> code which I find a bit unfortunate. Some qualifier like "you should,
> +where that is practical to do, acknowledge ..." might help alleviate
> this, however.

In the type of specifications I normally encounter, the auxiliary
"should" means that one doesn't have to if there is good reason not
to.  (Some compliance reviewers simply ignore any requirement modified
by "should"!)

Richard.


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