darwinports.com legal action

Jim Meyer jim at geekdaily.org
Sun Mar 7 18:18:39 PST 2010


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--j


On 3/7/10 3:36 PM, Joshua Root wrote:
> On 2010-3-8 05:26 , Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> I am sick and tired of darwinports.com, and I am hereby notifying the MacPorts community of my intent to seek legal action against Mat Caughron.
>>
>> I intend all these letters to be in my voice as an independent consumer in the state of California.  I am not seeking to bring MacPorts into this as a whole unless requested to do so.  BTW, what is the legal entity that represents MacPorts?  Is there a MacPorts Foundation?  If so, who is on the board?  If not, who is MacPorts?
>
> Thanks for taking this on. The MacPorts Project is, legally, just a
> collection of individuals. MacPorts is not a registered trademark.
> (Neither is/was DarwinPorts.) We're not really happy about that being
> the state of affairs, but when we looked into creating a legally
> recognised organisation, we concluded that it would be too expensive.
>
> - Josh
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