Hi Robert, On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 06:55:12AM -0700, Robert Tolu wrote: > My name is Robert Tolu and I currently lead a project > known as Debian Pure (www.debianpure.com). I am > writing because it has come to my attention that the > Debian name is a trademark and I may be infringing on > this trademark. Let me tell you about Debian Pure. > Basically, it?s the official Sarge installer slightly > modified to install sets of packages and preseeds to > get a Debian desktop running. The packages that are > included all come from the official Sarge repositories > with the exceptions of the common plugins (Java, > Flash, w32codecs, libdvdcss2, mplayer). > I want to apologize in advance if I have indeed > infringed on the Debian trademark and will change the > name of Debian Pure immediately if you so desire. Thank you for coming to us about this. While your project sounds interesting, you are right that there is a trademark problem when using this name for a project that isn't sanctioned by Debian officially. Like others on the list have done, I would encourage you to get involved in the debian-installer project (debian-boot@lists.debian.org) to help the etch installer live up to your expectations, and I would insist that you change your domain name and project name to eliminate any confusion about its relationship to Debian. > I?ve noticed other modified installers that are considered Debian. I'm not aware of any such modified installers that are referred to as "Debian <foo>", which is something of an important distinction. I've seen "yada yada installer *for* Debian", which is in quite a different category trademark-wise. Incidentally, in looking around your website, I don't see either links for source code, or a written offer to provide source code upon request; you may want to ensure that you're in compliance with the GPL as well when distributing these images :-) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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