On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:28:32PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 21:12:37 +0000 Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > Formally stated, it's approximately "trademarks cannot make a work > > strictly non-free, but you may have to replace all instances of the > > trademark with something else". Depending on circumstances, this may > > be an implicit change-the-name clause (which is okay), or it may be > > some trivial but boring work required to generate a free package. > > The former is DFSG-free in the first place, the latter can be made > DFSG-free (by stripping all trademark instances, a part from the name) > but is non-free (before the `operation'). > Is that what you mean?
Yup. And since trademarks are by definition non-functional, this isn't exactly a *problem*, it's just some work. > With this in mind, I would say Debian wants to stay in the former kind > of trademark encumbered works... > Thus, no trademarked logos in main or contrib, right? Depends on the license, as always. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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