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Re: Bug#122929: wpoison, is it okay?



Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi> writes:

> On 20011215T235408-0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> > (The canonical example here is TeX
> > which has such a restriction.)
> 
> TeX is already a special case as it really does not have a clear
> license, but everyone still treats it as free software.

Um, no, TeX has a perfectly clear license.

In any case, the point is that normal sorts of trademark issues don't
impinge freeness of software.  (There might be some case where
trademarks are used in a way that *does* cause a problem, but the
normal sorts of things are fine.)



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