Package: abiword Version: 2.0.7+cvs.2004.05.05-1 Severity: serious Please see the following mailing list discussion. On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:14:03PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote: > > Josh Triplett <josh.trip@verizon.net> writes: > > > >>For example, "Abiword" is a trademarked name; Abisource requires that > >>modified versions of Abiword are either called "Abiword Personal", or > >>that they don't have "Abiword" in the name. This is a perfectly > >>reasonable application of a trademark to Free Software, and Debian > >>distributes of Abiword using the branding "Abiword Personal". > > > > Not as far as I can se: > > > > Description: WYSIWYG word processor based on GTK2/GNOME2 > > AbiWord is the first application of a complete, open source office > > suite. The upstream source includes cross-platform support for > > Win32, BeOS, and QNX as well as GTK+ on Unix. > > . > > This package contains the AbiWord binary built with GTK2/GNOME2. > > > > Neither the GNOME menu entry, the splash screen, the window title nor > > the about box mention "Personal" in any way. > > > >>From what I see at > > <http://www.abisource.com/information/license/personal.phtml> the source > > they distribute should automatically brand itself "AbiWord Personal", > > but the source only mentions "Personal build" (or anything resembling) > > in the Windows .nsi installer files. > > Interesting. I was almost certain that at one point Abiword was branded > "Abiword Personal" in Debian, and used the blue ant graphics rather than > the official graphics. However, checking again, I see that this is not > the case in either the stable or unstable versions. This is definitely > a violation of the Abiword license, and should be submitted as a serious > bugreport on the abiword package. Filed. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Extra territorium jus dicenti branden@debian.org | impune non paretur. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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