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Re: Bug#265352: grub: Debian splash images for Grub



On 2004-09-22 23:22:45 +0100 Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> wrote:

A trademark license *has* to prohibit such things.  Prohibiting
misrepresenting the origin of the *logo* doesn't suffice.  We have to
require that the logo, and anything "confusingly similar", is not used to
identify things which aren't Debian.

Aren't the debian trademarks restricted to a specified scope? As I understand English law: if debian is a computing-related trademark, its licence should not forbid use of the debian logo for a distributor of replacement body parts, for example, because that is far beyond what the trademark gives. I think forgetting that is the root of trying to use copyright law to create "supertrademarks".

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