On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 01:37:06PM -0600, Paul Wise wrote:
> > I'm happy to attach a first complete draft of such a policy, and I'm
> > looking for comment on it.
>
> Some of the things that are explicitly allowed by the policy are
> things that AFAIK are not restricted by trademark law, is the pu
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 07:10:51AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> I think that we should show the example and remove restrictions on the
> commercial use of our trademark. We can of course, in a non-normative
> section, keep a recommendation to indicate if a donation will be made
> to Debian.
Tha
* Stefano Zacchiroli [2012-07-31 18:07]:
> \subsection{When to Use the DEBIAN Trademarks}
I'd change this to "When You Can Use the DEBIAN Trademarks" or "When
You Can Use the DEBIAN Trademarks Without Permission".
> \item You can make t-shirts, desktop wallpapers, caps, or other merchandise
> w
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> \item You can use DEBIAN trademarks to make true factual statements about
> DEBIAN or communicate compatibility with your product truthfully.
Can I use DEBIAN trademarks to make snarky ill-supported statements?
(Anticipating a decrease in list traffic.)
> \item You
On 08/01/2012 11:41 AM, Joey Hess wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>> \item You cannot use DEBIAN trademarks in a domain name, with or without
>> commercial intent.
>
> So debian.mirror.my.org is illegal?
Hmm, 'debian' is the default live hostname. That's a lot of potential
infringements ...
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 10:41:31AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > \item You can use DEBIAN trademarks to make true factual statements about
> > DEBIAN or communicate compatibility with your product truthfully.
>
> Can I use DEBIAN trademarks to make snarky ill-supported
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 05:50:56PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> (Fearing an increase in nitpicking threshold.) Well, you can, people
> will, and I'm sure nobody will bother, on average. But I can imagine all
> sorts of "journalistic" declarations about Debian that would undermine
> the projec
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 05:10:41PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 05:50:56PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > (Fearing an increase in nitpicking threshold.) Well, you can, people
> > will, and I'm sure nobody will bother, on average. But I can imagine all
> > sorts of "j
Lars Wirzenius writes:
> I'll leave the discussion with this counter suggestion: change the
> trademark policy to say:
> We call ourselves the Debian project. You can use our name as long
> as it doesn't make reasonable people confuse you or your stuff with
> us or our stuff, or impl
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 10:41:31AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > \item You can use DEBIAN trademarks to make true factual statements about
> > DEBIAN or communicate compatibility with your product truthfully.
> Can I use DEBIAN trademarks to make snarky ill-supported sta
Stefano Zacchiroli scrisse:
> > > \item You cannot use DEBIAN trademarks in a domain name, with or
> > > without commercial intent.
> > So debian.mirror.my.org is illegal?
>
> I've been correct by Mako on this before. Short answer: hostname !=
> domain name, so "debian.mirror.my.org" is perfectly
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