Re: standard fonts and euro
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> I didn't mean that we must stop to use the trademarks like `Linux'. But
> free programs *must not depend* on that trademark. If I am not allowed
> to distribute an unofficicial kernel and name it `Linux' that is OK.
> But if free programs stop to work because my kernel is not named `Linux'
> that is not OK.
Most things look at what the kernel is called (via uname(2)) in order to
determine the system. If you change it from 'Linux' to 'LinuxOS' (for
example), you'll see lots of things stop working, not least config.guess
and config.sub.
A blanket policy for trademarks based on an isolated issue (fonts) would
be silly IMHO.
A policy of 'don't hardcode non-free (or trademarked) font names in your
applications' is quite sane. A policy of 'don't hardcode non-free (or
trademarked) names in your applications' isn't.
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Mo McKinlay mmckinlay@gnu.org http://ekto.org
Read http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
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