Debian trademark [was: Debian GNU/w32, may ready to be started?]
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 11:24:15PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Dec 2001, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 11:39:34PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Has anyone considered that there may also be legal problems with calling
> > this port 'Debian'? The Debian name is also a registered trademark,
> [...]
>
> > recognize the advantages of a dpkg-based system for cygwin, and think
> [...]
>
> > It may be appropriate to call for a GR to see whether Debian wants their
> > name to be used on this port.[1]
>
> Well, if a full concensus is needed, I am already opposed to naming such a
> beast 'Debian', and I _will_ vote so (and I speak as both SPI and a Debian
> registered member, here), so don't bother.
Quoting from http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980306a:
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We allow all businesses to make reasonable use of the "Debian"
trademark. For example, if you make a CD of our Debian GNU/Linux
distribution, you can call that product "Debian". If you want to use
the name in some other way, you should ask us first.
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So the name may not be used for _anything_ else, including this
hypothetical distribution, without some sort of approval. Possibly the
DPL has discretion to permit this, but I would not be surprised to see
an immediate GR to overturn such a decision.
> On the other hand, adding a w32/cygwin architecture (or whatever the _dpkg_
> guys want to call it) to dpkg is certainly NOT something anyone should
> oppose. Heck, one friend of mine ported the thing to AIX...
Nothing really to do with Debian, though.
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