Re: standard fonts and euro
On 15.V.2001 at 17:11 Mo McKinlay wrote:
>
> > 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.
I suppose that is not a problem. Some CPUs imitate Intels CPUs in their
authentication commands. The important is that on the market they don't
use the name `Intel'. I suppose I am allowed to make an unofficial
kernel which uname returns Linux. I used that as an example.
I wrote that free programs must not depend on trademarks. That means
that free programs must not make other programs non-free.
> A blanket policy for trademarks based on an isolated issue (fonts) would
> be silly IMHO.
No. The kernel was not good example, but I think it is clean that we
don't want to be forced to use unmodified programs because of the
trademarks.
Anton Zinoviev, zinoviev@debian.org
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