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<div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 2, 2019, 4:13 PM by f@zz.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Hi,<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 02:05:44PM +0100, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:<br></div><blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">Mar 2, 2019, 12:19 PM by <a rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="mailto:f@zz.de">f@zz.de</a>:<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> Yes - we talk nicely - but in<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> the end nobody is willing to drag them to court. And THAT was the first<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">> question i had when we talked about relicensing.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">There is a big gap between polite (and easily ignorable) messages and court.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">Have OSMF ever send a DMCA to somebody?<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">In most jurisdications licensing and trade marks will only hold up<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">when defended or enforced in court. Once you stop doing so you<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">might loose your protection.<br></div></blockquote><div style="16px" text-align="left">AFAIK risk of losing protection is frequently overstated and "must hunt down every violation <br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">or protection disappears is a myth" even for trade marks.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">But can you provide source that it applies to licensing? So far I heard about it only in context<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left">of trademarks.<br></div><div style="16px" text-align="left"><br></div> </body>
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