darwinports.com [was: Developer requesting deletion of port]

[Kevin Walzer]

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Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote:

> 
> 1) We do not have a standard BSD or GPL license. How hard would it be 
>   for us to add a term to base/LICENSE that requires any sites 
>   attempting to reproduce or mirror information from our site or 
>   repository to place a banner a the top of each page indicating that it 
>   is duplicating information from our site.
> 

In terms of intellectual property, this is more an issue of trademark
than of copyright--the brand identity of MacPorts/DarwinPorts instead of
complying with the licensing terms of the source code. These are not
contradictory--the Mozilla Foundation places extensive restrictions on
how the Firefox and Mozilla trademarks can be used, even with an
open-source license. Of course, to assert a trademark, there needs to be
some legal entity set up to do so. Trademark registration is not
required to assert the trademark use, although it makes things easier.

For an example of how to do this, see this link:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/legal.php

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Kevin Walzer
Code by Kevin
http://www.codebykevin.com
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