#Software & Package Names: "reasonable person" vs US approaches?

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gritty pendant
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@normal scaffold since this is a complicated topic and we're not lawyers to my knowedge, I'm threading this.

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TL;DR: how do commonwealth / "reasonable person" legal systems handle software license and project naming in general?

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My own experience is largely focused on the US, where letter-of-the-law and court cases seem to decide what's actually true.

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Software Naming: "reasonable person" vs US approaches?

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Software & Package Names: "reasonable person" vs US approaches?

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I think my main question is "how do these countries scope reasonable person for any specific case?"

normal scaffold
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Same way the US does: legal precedent. The US relies more heavily on its constitution in its higher courts than Australia does (since the US constitution covers more topics than ours does), but they're still legal systems born out of a common basis in the English approach.

gritty pendant
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@normal scaffold interesting, ty. So in practice: what's the precedent set for what "reasonable person" is in sofware?

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A library thingbar in a haskell project and a thingbar in Python would be looked at from the POV of developers as the "reasonable person" model?

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My understanding is that in the US, it's a gamble which depends on:

  1. Is a $LITIGOUS_COMPANY involved in either?
  2. How famous is the project?
  3. How adjacent are the communties in terms of user base?
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Then there's how much people are willing to put up for lawyers / any case.