On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:57:46AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: > Regarding > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00312.html > > I'll let the Freemasons know Debian is distributing their Trademarked > logo and diluting their trademark. > > I'm also going to write letters to Duracell, Namco, and Hummer. > > I don't think it's right to distribute other people's trademarked images > as merchandise, even if it's free. It's fundamentally different than > reviewing the product in a magazine -- which has a purpose. The purpose > of this is to market Debian and entice people to use it using other > people's trademarked property. > > I think the press will be interested to know that in this corner case > Debian chose to get away with whatever it can get away with until it > receives cease and desist letters because it thinks no one will enforce > these trademarks so the risk is small. Or as I'm sure someone will say > "there's nothing wrong here" so naturally we can include say the NFL > logo, right?
You seem to be effectively diluting our list ... :) -- Glenn Maynard
