Bug#559752: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

[Andrew Mitchell <ajmitch@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 18:09 -0600, René Mayorga wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:11:10PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, René Mayorga wrote:
> > > How about Ubuntu™ One client (#559752), I think that this could
> > > affect those efforts too.
> > 
> > Not sure. Parts of it are certainly something that trademark could
> > apply to. [I think it's ok if it was "works with Ubuntu One", but the
> > "Ubuntu One client" may be probablematic.]
> 
> Just searching the web a bit I found some blog post from mako about this[1].
> But I'm still not sure if the trademark will affect in this case the use of the
> name «Ubuntu» for a commercial purpose without the one already approved by
> canonical with ubuntu-one service, in that case if some one want to modify this
> client and use it with their own services will need to re-brand the software
> though.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> --
> René

I've passed this on to upstream developers for a response, they'll
hopefully get a useful response from the appropriate people inside
Canonical.

Thanks,
Andrew