[Playlist] New "valid XSPF" button proposal

[Lucas Gonze]

If we're not using the trademark to enforce validity, what would we
use it for?  What sort of parasitical behaviors are we worried about?

I have gone through this process with Webjay, and it's a long road to
go down without a lawyer.  Our original plan to trademark "XSPF" went
bust when Xiph's in-house pro-bono lawyer graduated from law school
and disappeared.

On 6/22/07, Robert Buchholz <rbu at gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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
>
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