Re: fair use of the word Debian

1999-03-12 Thread Thaddeus Black
One can understand how concern would arise over the potential for random use and misuse of the Debian mark! To borrow an analogy given elsewhere, if I owned a Mercedes-Benz auto dealership, then, with Mercedes-Benz' permission, I might call the dealership Thaddeus Black Mercedes-Benz. Such

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