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Re: Debian and Mozilla Trademarks



Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:30:55PM -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> 
>>Are there any other examples of restrictions placed on open-source licenses 
>>that Debian has had to deal with in the past? When a package is resricted 
>>by trademark usage, does Debian have a policy to effectively deal with it?
> 
> There's no difference between trademark law and anything else, and
> nothing special about copyright law. We are interested in what you can
> do with the work, for *whatever* legal reasons. It is significant that
> the DFSG does not talk about copyrights.

Agreed entirely; unfortunately, this logic does not seem to be applied
in the case of the discussions of the license for the Debian logo.  See
the "Free Debian logos?" thread.

- Josh Triplett

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