Re: Bug#265352: grub: Debian splash images for Grub
> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> > But trademarks are names. That's all they are -- not necessarily in
> > roman characters or pronounceable, but names nonetheless.
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 04:50:37PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> That's a huge leap, and I seriously doubt it was intended by the
> drafters of DFSG4. I would argue very strongly against that
> interpretation. A name is just that, a name: some text moniker that
> identifies a project. "GCC", "grub", "Linux", and "Apache" are all
> names. A logo is not a name.
You're changing the subject from what Brian was talking about: the set of
"trademarks" has only a small area of overlap with the set of "logos".
Sure, there are logos which don't identify anything, but those logos
aren't trademarks.
Anyways, could you describe a serious scenario that illustrates this
danger to software freedom that you're so concerned about? [I saw the
scenario where you proposed that we shouldn't discriminate against fraud,
but the philosophy behind your argument would have us declare the GPL
non-free -- so that doesn't seem like a serious issue.]
Thanks,
--
Raul
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