From: Dom Lachowicz
Date: 20 July 2004 22:08:34 BST
To: Andy Korvemaker, abiword-dev@abisource.com
Subject: Re: Abiword being removed from Debian/unstable?
I'm not sure if this is the reason or not, but please
see:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258918
For the record, I've recently acquired the AbiWord
trademarks and whatnot. I haven't had a chance to
update the TM information on the website.
To be expressly clear here for any Debian guys that
read this message:
Within reason, I don't care if you use "AbiWord" vs.
"AbiWord Personal." In fact, I'd prefer it if you used
"AbiWord."
Within reason, I don't care if you use the "official"
artwork or the "personal" artwork. In fact, I'd prefer
it if you used the "official" artwork.
I do begin to care if you use my trademarks to promote
other products, or in ways that disparage my
trademarks or products. If you "forked" AbiWord, you
couldn't use the trademarks. But you're clearly not
going to do that. The USPTO has more info and case law
on this sort of thing.
Debian and the other distros are clearly distributing
AbiWord, and providing a beneficial service to the
community. Even though Debian's version might have a
few patches against our "mainline" branch, I don't
believe it constitutes a "fork." As such, I think that
it is fine (if not preferable) for you guys to use the
official name and artwork in your distribution.
So, you have my blessing to call your AbiWord +
patches "AbiWord". You can use the official artwork
too.
Dom
--- Andy Korvemaker wrote:
I was checking whether a new version of Abiword was
available in
Unstable and decided to see what was holding the
current Unstable
version from moving into Testing (at
http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/abiword.html).
Clicking on the "Check why" link for why it's not
there, it looks like
Abiword is scheduled for removal from Sid. See
http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=abiword
I'm not a Debian developer at all, so I'm not sure
if this is a "common"
occurence. But as a (relatively inexperienced) user
it sounds like
Abiword is being pulled for some reason. (I don't
know how to find out
what that reason is.)
andy
--
Andy Korvemaker
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