Re: DFSG And Trademarks
On Friday 18 June 1999, at 0 h 41, the keyboard of Jeff Licquia <jeff@luci.org>
wrote:
> The code itself is GPL, so DFSG compliance isn't a problem. However,
> the vendors have trademarked the words "CUPS", "Common UNIX Printing
> System", and possibly a few others I'm forgetting. The license page
> (http://www.cups.org/LICENSE.html) has this gem:
>
> "Also, since we have trademarked the Common UNIX Printing System,
> CUPS, and CUPS logo, you may not release a derivative product using
> those names without permission from Easy Software Products."
I believe that several packages in main have a licence which forces any modified version to use another name. (TeX is a typical example.) This is not itself a violation of DFSG (it is even explicitely authorized in article 4), IMHO.
In practice, if you fork and start a new CUPS, with the same code base, you will not want to use the same name, anyway.
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