On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 08:40:13PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote: > The question, then, is: > By packaging something under name Y, are we > marketing the software under name Y and are we > therefore subject to the trade mark > restrictions on name Y? > > If the answer is 'Yes' then I guess we had better start thinking about > possible trade mark infringement by other packages as well. I notice > that we have a "java-common" package although 'Java' is a trade mark. > I notice we have a "discover" package although 'discover' is also the > name of a commercial GIS software package. It shouldn't be hard to > find other examples. > > Do we need to do a trade mark search before introducing a new package > to Debian? I think it is sufficient to wait until a trademark holder complains. -- G. Branden Robinson | The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I branden@debian.org | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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