Re: On the uselessness of Debian trademarks.
MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-05-07 14:20:37 +0100 Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>
>> Uh, or they use the Debian trademark for something that's not Debian
>> at
>> all.. That's not necessairly claiming it as backing or endorsement
>> from
>> Debian.
>
> If it's software, it seems illegal anyway.
But it's illegal because it's a trademark violation. Not for any other
reason! Unless I'm very much mistaken. If I am someone will have to point
out the laws under which it's illegal.
Note that a trademark doesn't have to be registered to exist.
> If it's not software, it's
> probably outside the scope of debian's registered trademark.
Right, and we probably don't care.
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