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Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?



On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:26:25PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> 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.
> 

How about Ubuntu™ One client (#559752), I think that this could affect those
efforts too.

Cheers

--
René


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