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Re: License of old GNU Emacs manual



Andrew Suffield dijo [Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 06:35:08PM +0000]:
> > > 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.

Think Mozilla.

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