Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Walter Landry wrote:
> This makes it clearly non-free. It is best to just replace anything
> trademarked by Ubuntu.

An important caveat though, is that not every use of the word Ubuntu
is trademarkable. 

So while the package in question certainly should be rebranded, it's
not necessary to expunge every last mention of ubuntu from packages.
In fact, upstream probably wants this package to be trivially
rebrandable given the number of ubuntu derivatives there are.


Don Armstrong

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