On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Pen-Yuan Hsing penyuanhsing@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/02/18 11:13, Erik Auerswald wrote:
Hi,
I did not want to enter this flame war, but I want to point out an obvious misunderstanding of the involved parties:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 02:51:06PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...] now, it so happens in the case of HDMI that you can simply put an HDMI connector on the product.... what you CANNOT AND MUST NOT DO is put the *WORD* "HDMI" anywhere on your product, because that has SPECIFIC implications that the seller of that product HAS GONE THROUGH THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS.
Without a "product" and a "seller" there can be no infringement. A hobby project can exist and be publicly discussed and documented without being either a product or sold.
Over and out, Erik
I didn't want to enter this either. But I'd like to clarify that if it's copyright we're talking about,
I strongly suspect that it is _not_ copyright that we're talking about.
Until Luke or someone else points at an authoritative source to show otherwise, I would assume that he's just mixed up several of the barely related branches of law that people unhelpfully lump together under the "Intellectual Property" umbrella term.
Cheers, Phil.