[Legal] Fwd: RE: Possible incorrect use of application name

[Igor Zubkov]

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Subject: Fw: RE: Possible incorrect use of application name
Date: Суббота, 08-Окт-2005 11:47
From: Петр Евсеев <babooka75 на mail.ru>
To: icesik на altlinux.org

-----Original Message-----
From: "Leduy Nguyen" <Leduy_Nguyen на simlogic.net>
To: 'Петр Евсеев' <babooka75 на mail.ru>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 19:20:30 -0700
Subject: RE: Possible incorrect use of application name

> Hi there,
>
> Sim Logic's Simple Instant Messenger was first developed and released for
> testing among friends and college students in the US since Jan 2000. Simple
> Instant Messenger is only copyrighted officially since 2003. Please note
> that our application is not called "SIM". The name "Sim Logic" was also
> officially registered in 2003. If the name "Simple Instant Messenger" was
> officially copyrighted before 2003 by another company or person, we will
> changed our application to "Sim Logic's Simple Instant Messenger" otherwise
> we will keep our application name as "Simple Instant Messenger" to match
> with the rest of our product line. Again, we do not copyright any
> application name "SIM" even it is part of our company name.
>
> Regards,
> Sim Logic, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: оЕРП еБЯЕЕБ [mailto:babooka75 на mail.ru]
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 3:14 PM
> To: comment на simlogic.net
> Cc: rms на gnu.org
> Subject: Possible incorrect use of application name
>
> Good day to you, people http://www.simlogic.net
>
> You're using name "Simple Instant Messenger" & "SIM" for one of your
> application since 2003 ( according to your copyrights on
> http://www.simlogic.net ). Possible you don't know, that this name is in
> use sine 2002. There is an application, called "SIM" ("Simple Instant
> Messenger"). You can verify this by going at http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net
> and
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sim-icq/sim/README?rev=1.1&view=marku
>p
>
> This program ( I mean program from http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net ) is free
> software and it distributed under terms of GPL v.2
>
> For my opinion, it's not correct to use existing project name for your
> application, because project from http://sim-icq.sourceforge.net is well
> known in GNU and OpenSource community.
>
> My message is just a try to inform you in this situation.

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