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Re: Possible violation of the Debian trademark



On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 03:51:29PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:52:50PM +0200, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:
> > > I think neither rendition of the site that I saw was likely to make 
> > > someone think that they were buying from Debian. It would be nice to 
> > > have a clearer explanation of the relationship and some more links 
> > > back, though.
> >
> > I took a quick look at the site and I tend to agree with you. In
> > either case, it seems worth running by our lawyer working on trademark
> > issues and seeing where this goes from there.
> 
> Uh, have you _talked_ to the guy running the website yet?
>
> Do we really prefer talking to our lawyers than our users?

If mark holders don't protect their mark from certain types of use,
they risk losing their mark. I'd simply like to know whether this is
one of those cases because if it isn't, I'd rather not harass this
guy at all. :)

That said, your point is well taken. I'll send an email to the guy who
runs the site now.

Regards,
Mako


-- 
Benjamin Mako Hill
mako@debian.org
http://mako.yukidoke.org/

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