On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 06:17:45PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: > Last time we talked about the Debian logo issue, I almost came to the > conclusion that trademarks are orthogonal to DFSG-freeness. > > But then, the Mozilla trademark issue almost completely changed my mind. > See also > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00365.html > [archive reference of my message dated Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:18:52 +0100] > for my doubts and the discussion that followed... Formally stated, it's approximately "trademarks cannot make a work strictly non-free, but you may have to replace all instances of the trademark with something else". Depending on circumstances, this may be an implicit change-the-name clause (which is okay), or it may be some trivial but boring work required to generate a free package. (I continue to reserve judgement about which one Mozilla is, although it smells like the latter). -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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