On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 05:45:35PM -0700, Thaddeus Black wrote: > This message is to confirm that it would indeed be acceptable for a Debian > CD distributor to have the descriptive word Debian in its name. In the > same way that, say, Linux System Labs has the word Linux in its name. If > there were a reason a Debian CD distributor might not similarly be called > Debian System Labs, or some other such name, please advise. Thanks.
Note that Debian is a trademark (I hope), and this would prevent it from being used as a name for a company or product in the computer business. Especially Debian Systems Labs, or selling CD's with "Debian" printed on it. Note that Linus did explicitely say that he does not want to enforce the Linux trademark he owns, so this is a different pair of shoes. To make it short: Trademark infringement can't be justified by fair use clause. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
