Re: DCC (Debian Confusion Core) trademark negotiation status

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>]

<posted & mailed>
Cc:ed to dcca-discuss, since that's who needs to change this FAQ.

Anthony Towns wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 05:01:06PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
<snip>
>> Look at the www.dccalliance.org website:

They need to be asked to change their FAQ to remove more trademark
infringements.  It refers repeatedly to "Debian distributions".
That should be "Debian-based distributions" or
".deb-based distributions", depending.  The only "Debian
distributions" are potato, woody, sarge, etch, sid, etc.

Additionally, they should replace:

" * Assemble a 100 percent Debian core that addresses the needs of
enterprise business users"
with:
" * Assemble a core consisting entirely of packages from Debian which
addresses the needs of enterprise business users"
or, if any packages are modified,
" * Assemble a 100% .deb-format core which addresses the needs of enterprise
business users"

and they need to remove all references to "the Debian core".
 
The following sentence is another trademark violation:

>The DCC is not a Linux distribution; it is a "base" Debian system composed
>of essential programs or "packages" from Debian GNU/Linux, combined with
>member additions to attain LSB certification and achieve broad commercial
>acceptance and support.   

This must not say 'it is a "base" Debian system'.  It should just say:
>it is a "base" system

Here's another one:
>The Alliance will continue to develop and expand the common core for the
>next stable release of Debian. 

This makes it appear that the Alliance is working to prepare the next stable
release of Debian, which is wrong.  It could be something like:
"The Alliance will continue to develop and expand the common core based on
the next stable release of Debian."

Here's another one:
>and the DCC Alliance will serve as a single point of contact for software
>and hardware vendors who want to ensure that their products will work with
>Debian.  
"work with Debian-based systems".  Vendors who want to ensure that their
products will work with Debian should contact *Debian*.

Here's another one:
"The DCC Alliance is actively engaged in bringing the Debian core into
compliance with current LSB specifications"
Either change it to refer to the DCC core, or say "...bringing Debian
packages which we consider core into compliance..." if they're actually
working on Debian.

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