On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 09:14:29PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > XenSource published a trademark policy[1]. I don't think we will be able > to follow it if we want to support installation of different versions at > the same time.
> [1]: http://www.xensource.com/company/legal.html >From this page: Fair Use of Marks Nominative fair use is a common law principle that permits referential use of someone else's mark to describe that other person's goods or services under certain limited circumstances. For example, you may use a competitor's trademark when comparing your products with your competitor's products. Generally speaking, you may make fair use of another person's trademark only when you comply with nominative fair use conditions, which include ensuring that: (a) the other person's product or service is not readily identifiable without use of their trademark; (b) you make use of only so much of the other person's mark as is reasonably necessary to identify the product or services; and (c) your use of the mark does nothing that suggests sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark holder, and your conduct and language reflect the true and accurate relationship between your products and the other person's products. It is under the principle of nominative fair use that Debian uses any trademarks of our upstreams as package names for software they distribute. As such, we don't necessarily have any obligation to acquire a trademark license from XenSource to name our packages "xen", AFAICS. We certainly aren't distributing a product named "Xen", we're distributing one named "Debian". -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
