On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:15:05PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > >Neither please. Debian packages should be easily modified by other > >people, not just us. It doesn't achieve a great deal to replace their > >trademark with our own. > > > > OK, let's say I rename the package to 'somebird' and want to produce a good > package for debian. Should I use a patched orig.tar.gz or is it ok to > distribute the source as provided by upstream (of course without the > trademarked icons) and patch the rest (e.g. thunderbird mozilla) during > build?
They can't complain about trademarks if the file is the actual unmodified upstream tarball: accuracy is an ultimate defence against trademark claims. If it's been modified by removing stuff for copyright reasons then you might have a problem, depending on how they restrict use of the trademarks. The tarball stands alone for this one; the rest of the source package is irrelevant - if it's okay to distribute the stripped tarball alone, then it's okay as part of the debian package too. Might be worth asking them about it. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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