Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by belorn 610 days ago
If your intention is to highlight the changes in the policy, I would remove the word "gpl" in that above quoted text, since the trademark is not under GPL. I would also enjoy reading a take on what the policy has changed, the implication of it, and how it effects the ecosystem. Such analysis is especially interesting if you are a trademark lawyer by profession, or if a lawyer was consulted before publishing in order to keep the legal aspects as true to trademark law as possible.

Companies and organizations do update their trademark policies, so I am not sure how set in stone a policy is in term of case law. If you have such long history of case law, I would enjoy reading it. Software do change licenses from time to time (VLC comes in mind, but there are plenty of other examples, including projects going from a permissive BSD license to something like AGPL). Old version of the software are under the old license, but all new version of the software will be covered under the new license. Trademark as a concept is quite different here since it always refer to the current product or company.