[mythtv-users] Commercial releases of MythTV?

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I suggest that the name "MythTV" should be registered as a trademark or
copywrited or whatever.
I'm not a legal expert, but I assume this will help in the future.

Also as someone elsee stated, I imagine there's definitely an opertunity for
Isaac either as a freelancer or a Hauppauge developer.

Rgds,
Pete

ps. I was at Cebit this week setting up a stand (Motorola), but I didn't see
the mail about Hauppagge's stand until I got home.  I have phone my
colleages who want Myth boxes to go have a look, so I will get info back
from them.

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org]On Behalf Of Chris Petersen
Sent: 19 March 2004 05:21
To: 'Discussion about mythtv'
Subject: RE: [mythtv-users] Commercial releases of MythTV?


> The problem is that they have "decent" lawyers and better marketers.
> >From reading this thread for, what, 4 hours now, it is clear that they
> are in GPL compliance (enter their lawyers), but their marketing tactics
> suck...from OUR point of view, being those that pour our hearts and
> souls and get yelled at by the SO's and all that by trying to do it
> ourselves.

Actually, from what I've read from people looking at the archives, their
files conveniently left out the text of the GPL from their source code,
which *is* a violation.

Other than this (if this is indeed the case, and it'd be easy for them
to fix), it's unfriendly to the project to not provide a direct link to
the source (but include it "hidden" inside of their binary ISO) or much
attribution, but it's not a violation of the GPL.  Their code is
available, and according to the GPL, we're welcome to use it (their
auto-update code might be cool to look at, although it may not do us
much good due to the different package managers used by each
distribution).

-Chris

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