Please fix the trademark policy in regards to code

[Ellie]

 > I believe rather than attaching a symbol to every instance of a
 > trademark, a single comment at the beginning of the file would
 > suffice, e.g. "Within this file, the word 'Unicode', and its variants,
 > refers to the Unicode(R) Standard. Unicode(R) is a registered
 > trademark of the Unicode Consortium". Or some similar legal
 > boilerplate.

But that might become a very long text in some files if all of those 
were always listed (windows, linux, macos, apple - from ifdefs -, 
unicode, ...).

And for what it's worth, I don't think I've ever seen a source code file 
mentioning Linux that has a trademark note at the top. (Including those 
produced by people working at the Linux Foundation for the Linux 
kernel.) So even that suggestion doesn't seem to be what is commonly 
done in practice.

Which in my opinion only would make a remark at the very least about 
fair use helpful, like the Linux guidelines put it. Even if legally 
apparently not required to be clarified, many open source hobby devs 
probably can't pay lawyers to verify that. So it still makes a 
difference IMHO to ease the mind with noting this in the text, as 
obvious as it might be.

Regards

Ellie

On 10/7/20 5:31 PM, Sławomir Osipiuk via Unicode wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 9:04 AM Ellie via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
> 
> I believe rather than attaching a symbol to every instance of a
> trademark, a single comment at the beginning of the file would
> suffice, e.g. "Within this file, the word 'Unicode', and its variants,
> refers to the Unicode(R) Standard. Unicode(R) is a registered
> trademark of the Unicode Consortium". Or some similar legal
> boilerplate.
> 
> That said, I think a note regarding source code and filenames can be
> added to the "Special Situations" section of the page you originally
> linked and would be helpful.
> 
> Sławomir Osipiuk
>