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Re: Trademarks: what is the line?



On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 12:59:31PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 02:12:28PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> * Alexander Sack:
> >> 
> >> > Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> They are not entirely unrelated.  The DFSG explicitly mentions
> >> >> mandatory renaming clauses in licenses, and deems them to be
> >> >> DFSG-free.  The Mozilla trademark license seems to be rather harmless
> >> >> at that because they give permission to retain the command names.
> >> >
> >> > No, they don't. AFAICS, as soon as you do not use the community edition you have 
> >> > to change the package name *and* the command names.
> >> 
> >> Uh-oh.  And the community edition does not give permission to change
> >> the list of root CAs. 8-(
> >
> > What sort of nonsense is that? What on earth are they trying to accomplish?
> 
> About what Debian seeks to accomplish with the Official Logo: a seal
> or mark indicating quality.

But their root CAs are crap.

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