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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.

-- 
There are none so blind as those who will not see.



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