[Playlist] New "valid XSPF" button proposal

[Robert Buchholz]

On Friday, 22. June 2007 11:33, Bjorn Wijers wrote:
> Should XSPF become a trademark? So we can legally 'protect' it 
> against parasites in such a manner as the Linux trademark or Mozilla?
> We could then 'enforce' the use of the button only when the XSPF is
> indeed valid (tested against Sebastian's validator..). What are your
> thoughts about this?

Making it a trademark to protect its general use is a good thing. 
Enforcing rules along with that is too much in my opinion. For once, if 
companies even smell the risk of getting sued if they didn't validate 
their (or any third party) xspf generation code, they won't use it.
Second, see the mess Mozilla created with their Firefox/Thunderbird 
trademark enforcements and Debian et.al. [1].

-R.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel#Debian_Iceweasel_appears