On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:07:26PM +0200, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader wrote: > Debian is a trademark but many people are not aware of this. In fact, > there has been some confusion about this recently. At the moment, the > footer of our web pages display a Copyright statement. I wanted to > ask if you could also add a short statement saying that Debian is a > trademark. SPI's trademark lawyer has advised me that giving more > prominence to the trademark is very important. Something like: > "Debian is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest" > would be great. We have formed a trademark committee and once they > will publish a trademark policy, we can link to it. For now, it would > be great if you could add this little statement to make the fact more > prominent that Debian is in fact a trademark. Produced a little patch. If no one has objections, I will apply it. Gruß, -- *** Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.de> *** *** http://www.djpig.de/ *** see also: - http://www.usta.de/ - http://fachschaft.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/
Index: footer.wml =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/webwml/webwml/english/template/debian/footer.wml,v retrieving revision 1.102 diff -u -r1.102 footer.wml --- footer.wml 1 Nov 2002 13:16:30 -0000 1.102 +++ footer.wml 17 Jul 2003 11:44:12 -0000 @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ <define-tag seelicense whitespace=delete> <gettext>See <a href="m4_HOME/license" rel="copyright">license terms</a></gettext> </define-tag> +<define-tag trademark whitespace=delete> + <gettext>Debian is a registered trademark of Software in the Public Interest, Inc.</gettext> +</define-tag> # Do NOT translate anything below this line. If you feel something needs # to be modified, first write to debian-www list. @@ -81,7 +84,8 @@ <lastmodified/>: <:= webwml_ctime () :> <when <string-eq "$(NOCOPYRIGHT)" "" />> <br /> - <copyright/> © <copyrightyears/> <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/">SPI</a>; <seelicense/> + <copyright/> © <copyrightyears/> <a href="http://www.spi-inc.org/">SPI</a>; <seelicense/><br /> + <trademark /> </when> </small>
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