Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > Josh Triplett <josh.trip@verizon.net> writes: > >>For example, "Abiword" is a trademarked name; Abisource requires that >>modified versions of Abiword are either called "Abiword Personal", or >>that they don't have "Abiword" in the name. This is a perfectly >>reasonable application of a trademark to Free Software, and Debian >>distributes of Abiword using the branding "Abiword Personal". > > Not as far as I can se: > > Description: WYSIWYG word processor based on GTK2/GNOME2 > AbiWord is the first application of a complete, open source office > suite. The upstream source includes cross-platform support for > Win32, BeOS, and QNX as well as GTK+ on Unix. > . > This package contains the AbiWord binary built with GTK2/GNOME2. > > Neither the GNOME menu entry, the splash screen, the window title nor > the about box mention "Personal" in any way. > >>From what I see at > <http://www.abisource.com/information/license/personal.phtml> the source > they distribute should automatically brand itself "AbiWord Personal", > but the source only mentions "Personal build" (or anything resembling) > in the Windows .nsi installer files. Interesting. I was almost certain that at one point Abiword was branded "Abiword Personal" in Debian, and used the blue ant graphics rather than the official graphics. However, checking again, I see that this is not the case in either the stable or unstable versions. This is definitely a violation of the Abiword license, and should be submitted as a serious bugreport on the abiword package. - Josh Triplett
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