On Friday, June 1, 2012, William Stein wrote:
>
>
> On Friday, June 1, 2012, Michael Orlitzky
> <mich...@orlitzky.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'mich...@orlitzky.com');>>
> wrote:
> > On 06/01/12 02:05, Martin Albrecht wrote:
> >>
> >> Secondly, it shouldn't be a problem but to verify: having a trademark
> on the
> >> name does not present a problem for being included in Debian et al.,
> right?
> >
> > The Firefox/Iceweasel mess was the result of Mozilla's stance that you
> > aren't allowed to distribute a modified Firefox and still use the
> > trademarked Firefox logo and name.
> >
> > Their reasoning was that you could patch Firefox to suck, and that would
> > tarnish the brand. On the other hand, not allowing modification and
> > redistribution violates Debian's free software guidelines.
> >
> > If we don't care about downstream patched versions that use the Sage
> > branding, this won't be a problem. If we do, then they can rebrand or
> > not patch. I don't see it as much of a problem.
>
> We can come up with an official policy statement on the use of the Sage
> trademark. It would *not* allow what is at http://www.sagetrac.org, but
> would allow every other use of "sage" I've ever seen so far.
>
>
>
+1
>
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