MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't see why. We don't require that trademark licenses be granted to >> our users in any case - us having an extra permission above and beyond >> the freedoms we expect for our users doesn't seem to be a problem. > > We're distributing some files which cannot be modified and > distributed if MF considers the resulting work "confusingly > similar". Are there many other packages afflicted by such > agressive registered trademarks? The other one which I remember > is Apache and I think their trademark was another source of > tension once.
But we're also distributing files that the user can't modify without renaming, so I'm not entirely sure what the issue is. If Mozilla's /copyright/ license said "You may not modify this without renaming it, unless you have a separate agreement with us", would you object to Debian having permission to call the code Mozilla? Would you object if we then distributed it under that name, even if our users didn't have permission to do so? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
