On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:14:08 +0100 Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh.trip@verizon.net>:
>
> > > Trademark problems only arise when the image is used in a
> > > particular way. I would think that Debian is not obliged to and
> > > cannot give permission for all possible uses of Debian software.
> >
> > We most certainly can and should.
>
> We can't give permission for people to use Apache to implement
> one-click shopping. That's a far greater and far more serious
> restriction, and one more direcly related to software, than the
> trademark restriction on the use of the Debian logo, and yet we don't
> argue that Apache is non-free because of it.
That's because it's not Apache's license that fails to permit this use
(or attempt to restric this use): it's the existence of an unrelated
software patent.
Apache Software Foundation gives this permission, it's the one-click
shopping patent holder that does not!
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