On Friday 18 June 1999, at 0 h 41, the keyboard of Jeff Licquia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The code itself is GPL, so DFSG compliance isn't a problem. However, > the vendors have trademarked the words "CUPS", "Common UNIX Printing > System", and possibly a few others I'm forgetting. The license page > (http://www.cups.org/LICENSE.html) has this gem: > > "Also, since we have trademarked the Common UNIX Printing System, > CUPS, and CUPS logo, you may not release a derivative product using > those names without permission from Easy Software Products." I believe that several packages in main have a licence which forces any modified version to use another name. (TeX is a typical example.) This is not itself a violation of DFSG (it is even explicitely authorized in article 4), IMHO. In practice, if you fork and start a new CUPS, with the same code base, you will not want to use the same name, anyway.
