On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 17:45:35 -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.
Quoting http://www.spi-inc.org/trademarks : :Open Source, Open Hardware, and Debian are Registered Certification Marks :of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. :The Debian trademark is managed by Debian And Debian is organised according to its constitution (http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution). As far as I recall, there have been no resolutions regarding the use of the "Debian" trademark so far. [IANAL, but is "fair use" a legal term when it comes to trademarks? I'm only aware of "fair use" as a legal term in relation to copyright.] Ray -- Tevens ben ik van mening dat Nederland overdekt dient te worden.
