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[atilla ontas]

Im a lawyer, altough i dont know US or EU laws; i think it will be a
legal problem like Mandrake name case. We should immediately need to
consider this. Also even name is not a legal matter than domain names
could be give us headache.

2010/9/22 Marc Paré <marc at marcpare.com>:
>>>> While mageia.org is not the same as mageia.com, I expect
>>>> a lot of users are going to accidentally go to the wrong
>>>> site.
>>>>
>>>> Is this going to be potential legal problem?
>>>>
>>>> Regards, Dave Hodgins
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>> Ohhh, that smells like..... Wach out!
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> I don't think we should worry about this right now. It has gone too far and
> once we have the infrastructure up and going, changing names becomes a
> trivial matter.
>
> It would surprise met if this were of any problems at all. A minerals
> company found at mageia.com and a linux distro found at mageia.org are
> simply too far apart in concept to be mistaken.
>
> It will become a problem if the term "Mageia" has been copywritten or
> (heaven forbid) patented! by someone or a company.
>
> Having a site's name is not usually a problem. Laws differ depending of the
> country you reside in. But they all seem to follow the same convention
> (except for patent laws).
>
> Note that I am not a lawyer.
>
> Marc
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