RE: [Balloon] Balloon Open Hardware Licence

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Author: Paul Fidler
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To: balloon
Subject: RE: [Balloon] Balloon Open Hardware Licence
On Feb 22 2007, David Bisset wrote:

> (Paul, Am I to take it that the rest sounds acceptable?).


I haven't really gone through it line-by-line yet - the public domain clause
just jumped out at me.

The only other thing I can think of at the moment relates to the Design
Marks. Would the mark need to be registered as a Certification/Collective
Mark http://www.patent.gov.uk/tmmanual-chap4-certcoll.pdf and if so who
would own it?

I suspect it may be unnecessary (why would somebody use the mark unless they
were licensing the design under the BOHL...) but I thought I'd mention it as
a potential topic. Would we care if somebody put the mark on a tee-shirt for
example? (Think Debian and the problems they've had with their logo...)


Paul Fidler
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