* Gervase Markham (gerv@mozilla.org) wrote: > Eric Dorland wrote: > >The thread is petering out > > Only because there's only one of me, and I'm too busy to deal with the > volume! It's currently ten to midnight and I just got back from speaking > at a conference in Wolverhampton. The volume has been pretty light compared to most Debian flamewars. > >Some very smart developers have come forward to say that trademarks > >don't matter with respect to free software. > > I'd certainly disagree with that. I'd say they matter very much. I think > free software should actively use trademarks for what they are designed > for - a mark of quality. > > >Firefox. There is also very little guidance in what would be > >acceptable trademark restrictions for a free software project. I hope > >there can still be some dialog within Debian and hopefully come up > >with some guidelines that developers can accept. > > That would be excellent. I hope that my suggestions for managing the > Firefox trademark would be a starting point for those discussions. > > >So, I don't feel I can accept the agreement offered by the Mozilla > >Foundation, because of my objections to it and because I don't feel > >empowered to make an agreement like this on behalf of Debian. > > If you are not empowered, who is? The DPL, as I point out in the next paragraph. > >If the DPL does not step forward to make some sort of agreement, what > >will I do? Renaming seems to be a very unpopular option. So I believe > >my best option is to ignore the trademark policy altogether and have > >the Mozilla Foundation tell us when they want us to stop using their > >marks. > > Would you adopt a similar attitude to copyright infringement? No, but as many have pointed out, they're not the same thing. If they were, clearly your agreement would be non-free. -- Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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