Re: Fair use of the word Debian

1999-03-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 17:45:35 -0700, Thaddeus Black wrote: > This message is to confirm that it would indeed be acceptable for a Debian > CD distributor to have the descriptive word Debian in its name. In the > same way that, say, Linux System Labs has the word Linux in its name. If > there were

Re: Fair use of the word Debian

1999-03-11 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 02:52:29 +, Paul Puri wrote: > In addition, I would also like to know what a Debian CD distributor > would be able to do with the logo. > > What are the license terms of the logo. Has it been trademarked? See http://www.debian.org/logos/ . Not however that new logo

Re: Fair use of the word Debian

1999-03-11 Thread John Hasler
Marcus writes: > Note that Debian is a trademark (I hope),... It is at least a common-law trademark. I don't know if those are still enforceable, though. > ...and this would prevent it from being used as a name for a company or > product in the computer business. Unless the owner grants permiss

Re: Fair use of the word Debian

1999-03-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 05:45:35PM -0700, Thaddeus Black wrote: > This message is to confirm that it would indeed be acceptable for a Debian > CD distributor to have the descriptive word Debian in its name. In the > same way that, say, Linux System Labs has the word Linux in its name. If > there

Re: Fair use of the word Debian

1999-03-11 Thread Paul Puri
>> Original Message << On 3/10/99, 4:45:35 PM, Thaddeus Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Fair use of the word Debian: > This message is to confirm that it would indeed be acceptable for a Debian > CD distributor to have the descriptive word Debian in

Fair use of the word Debian

1999-03-11 Thread Thaddeus Black
This message is to confirm that it would indeed be acceptable for a Debian CD distributor to have the descriptive word Debian in its name. In the same way that, say, Linux System Labs has the word Linux in its name. If there were a reason a Debian CD distributor might not similarly be called Debi