On Mi, 2011-01-12 at 09:26 -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > This is not a position we should back down from as a project without some > very specific legal counsel about the risks and a *consensual* decision *as > a project* to change our handling of trademark claims. Maintainers going it > alone to ask upstreams for trademark permission, as in this case, erode > Debian's overall position on trademarks vs. package and file names. Please > don't do this. Far from "playing it safe" legally, you're instead putting > at risk the work of all those other maintainers who have put countless hours > into integrating around the standard upstream names. That's basically a superset of what I wrote on IRC after the initial email happened (basically, I wrote something like: asking upstream for permission is stupid, it's their trademark, and as long as nobody wants to sue you, everything is fine).
I don't know why OdyX decided to do this, there was no prior discussion of this, and I never supported this, and I am sure most of the others did not support this either. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1294938800.22024.22.camel@jak-thinkpad
