Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> forwarded:
> Adobe Systems Incorporated ("Adobe") hereby grants to the TeX Users
> Group [...]This licence isn't a general public licence. We can't use it. BUT: > The TeX Users Group is also permitted to sublicense, and grant > such sublicensees the right to further sublicense, any or all the > foregoing rights through multiple tiers of distribution. If TUG will license it freely, then it seems OK, as long as: > [...] The TeX Users > Group agrees that Adobe and its suppliers are the sole and exclusive > owners of all rights, title and interest, including all copyrights, > patents, trademarks, trade names, trade secrets and other intellectual > property rights in the Software. This is only about the Software as released by Adobe, not any modifications. > The Adobe trademarks shall not be used in advertising pertaining to the > distribution of the Software without express prior permission from > Adobe. Any such use shall be in accordance with the Adobe trademark > guidelines, available on the Adobe website at > http://www.adobe.com/misc/pdfs/TM GuideforThirdPartiesFinal.pdf. > If any portion of the Software is changed, it cannot be marketed under > Adobe's trademarks unless Adobe, in its sole discretion, approves by a > prior writing the quality of the resulting implementation. Yet another potted trademark law(!) Seems like a no-op? So, yes, this could be helpful for free software very easily, as long as TUG sublicenses to the general public nicely. Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
