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Re: License of old GNU Emacs manual



On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:20:45PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Glenn Maynard:
> 
> > It's not clear whether a work which is affected by a "strict" trademark
> > license is DFSG-free.
> 
> Really?  TeX is affected by such a license

No it isn't. TeX has one of the regular weak ones. Those are harmless
(and may not be enforceable in some jurisdictions due to silly rules
about trademark defense).

A "strict" trademark license says:

 NOTHING THAT WE DID NOT DO CAN CARRY OUR NAME

Or something equivalent.

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