On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:54:47 +0200 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > Anyway, I have a question: does the latter ("may not [...] harm the
> > reputation of the trademark holder") prevent me from stating
> >
> > "Debian GNU/Linux sucks badly"
>
> Good point. I would say no, as long as it is clear that "use"
> in the above sentence refers to a use covered by trademark.
[...]
> perhaps it's
> best to just drop that part.How would the revised wording look like? > > > possibly with the swirl (== Open Use Logo) associated to the > > sentence? > > As an aside, in my experience courts are more likely to forbid use > of graphical marks than word marks in cases like this. You can't > criticize a company without mentioning its name, but do you really > need to show its logo? Maybe, for instance if I want to criticize the logo, as well... P.S.: Please do not reply to me, Cc:ing the list, as I didn't asked you to do so. I am a debian-legal subscriber and would rather avoid receiving the same message twice. Reply to the list only (as long as you want to send a public response). See http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct for more details. Thanks. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/etch_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian etch installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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