Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-22 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 01:59:43PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:07:07PM +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:38:38PM +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > > > So a naming in the sense of "Debian Commercial Support Association" > > > or something

Re: "Why" Debian Common Core Alliance? Why not Debian?

2005-08-22 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 8/22/05, Anthony Towns wrote: [snip mostly sensible stuff] > I certainly hope not, at least until you've learnt where the boundary is > between speaking on behalf of yourself and speaking on behalf of Debian. > The above crosses it, eg -- what makes you think Debian wants to accept as > an offi

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 05:18:50PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > I plan on working with both the leadership of the DCCA, the SPI > trademark group, and Debian Developers to resolve this issue as > amicably as possible, as rapidly as possible. So, is this going to happen entirely behind the scenes,

Re: "Why" Debian Common Core Alliance? Why not Debian?

2005-08-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:17:18PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > Even if you missed it on some of the news sites, let me tell you: > DCC will not be a fork. Uh, yes it will. You're going to need to have your own packages to implement LSB 3.0 compliance, and they're not going to end up tracking e

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-22 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 03:07:07PM +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:38:38PM +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > > So a naming in the sense of "Debian Commercial Support Association" > > or something along those lines would seem to make it clearer to me > ... or just sti

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-22 Thread John Hasler
Peter Vandenabeele writes: > ... or just stick to the original "DCC" as "Debian Commercial Consortium". Excellent suggestion. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks

2005-08-22 Thread Philip Hands
MJ Ray wrote: > Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >>This sort of hijacking of our name is the reason for having a trademark on >>it -- We should clearly protect our users from the confusion that the DCC >>name is bound to cause by issuing a cease & desist letter forthwith. > > > If

Re: "Why" Debian Common Core Alliance? Why not Debian?

2005-08-22 Thread Michael Meskes
Am Freitag, 19. August 2005 22:46 schrieb Andre Felipe Machado: > It is not clearly stated: " it will not be a fork, but a subproject inside > Debian" > And DCCA was already launched. > Maybe I forgot some paragraph, but it would be nice to have some of the > nice ideas implemented on Debian. > Cou

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-22 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Peter Vandenabeele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 05:18:50PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >> Please feel free to e-mail me at any time if you have questions or >> wish to make a comment on the usage of the trademark; I will (as >> usual) be participating on -project and -legal

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-22 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 02:38:38PM +0200, Peter Vandenabeele wrote: > So a naming in the sense of "Debian Commercial Support Association" > or something along those lines would seem to make it clearer to me ... or just stick to the original "DCC" as "Debian Commercial Consortium". For many custo

Re: Delegation for trademark negotiatons with the DCCA

2005-08-22 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 05:18:50PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > Please feel free to e-mail me at any time if you have questions or > wish to make a comment on the usage of the trademark; I will (as > usual) be participating on -project and -legal. I am not a Debian Developer, but when I look at t

Re: What the DFSG really says about trademarks

2005-08-22 Thread MJ Ray
Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > This sort of hijacking of our name is the reason for having a trademark on > it -- We should clearly protect our users from the confusion that the DCC > name is bound to cause by issuing a cease & desist letter forthwith. If the above argument is per