Re: Firefox/Thunderbird trademarks: a proposal

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Dorland
tops at me (and Mike). You could appeal to the rest of the Debian community, but so far everyone I've talked to has supported my position. > [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00503.html > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/01/msg00780.html > [2] http://

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird trademarks: a proposal

2005-01-21 Thread Eric Dorland
* Gervase Markham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > >>>Now then, I personally will not accept any deal that is Debian > >>>specific. > >> > >>Absolutely reasonable - it would be entirely against DFSG #8. > > > >Umm, I don&

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird trademarks: a proposal

2005-01-21 Thread Eric Dorland
* Gervase Markham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > >Before I get to them, one of the interesting things pointed out in one > >of the threads is that the Trademark License might be more onerous > >then what trademark law (at least in the US) allows. Now, they&

Re: Firefox/Thunderbird trademarks: a proposal

2005-01-19 Thread Eric Dorland
ands now I'm not going to take any action until: * The Mozilla Foundation tells me to stop using the marks or, * The Trademark License is finalized (right now it still says version 0.7 draft, so I don't consider it in any way binding). PS please CC me on any replies, I'm not su

Re: Mozilla and Trademarks

2005-01-02 Thread Eric Dorland
scenario? > > >My suggestion here would be to give your projects something like a > >codename (e.g. thunderbird codename freehawk) and explicitly grant the > >right to use those codenames for derived works of thunderbird in your > >trademark policy. The same would be tr

Re: Debian & the Mozilla Firefox Trademarks

2004-03-01 Thread Eric Dorland
a resolution that allows you to ship an "official" Firefox and > that allows us to feel comfortable about the quality of products > shipping under our name and logos. I understand you're concern with quality... I'm very concerned with it as well, because every time somet

Re: Debian & the Mozilla Firefox Trademarks

2004-03-01 Thread Eric Dorland
* Ben Goodger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > > >Hi Ben, > > > > > Hi Eric, > > I'm replying to this including our QA person, Asa Dotzler who is > interested in these matters. [snip] > > Asa will comment more here. > >

Debian & the Mozilla Firefox Trademarks

2004-03-01 Thread Eric Dorland
g different icons would again cause confusion and worsen the experience for our users. I'm CCing our legal mailing list just to keep them in the loop. Thanks for your time, and I hope to hear from you soon. -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D

Re: Bug#191717: automake1.6: install-sh licensing nightmare?

2003-05-07 Thread Eric Dorland
tainer. > > Alternatively, we could just get someone to write a work-alike of MIT's > install program, place it into the public domain, and replace the one in > GNU automake with that. I mean, come on, it's *install*. It ain't > hard. > -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL

Re: Bug#181969: ITP: jasper -- Image library for the JPEG-2000 Part 1 Standard

2003-02-24 Thread Eric Dorland
mat than jpeg. The DFSG requires the right to > make modifications, and does not permit any [1] restrictions on this > right. > > [1] Except certain restrictions for the purpose of preventing modified > versions from being falsely represented as being the work of the > origi

Re: Bug#181969: ITP: jasper -- Image library for the JPEG-2000 Part 1 Standard

2003-02-24 Thread Eric Dorland
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