On Friday, June 1, 2012, Michael Orlitzky <mich...@orlitzky.com> wrote: > On 06/01/12 02:05, Martin Albrecht wrote: >> >> Secondly, it shouldn't be a problem but to verify: having a trademark on the >> name does not present a problem for being included in Debian et al., right? > > The Firefox/Iceweasel mess was the result of Mozilla's stance that you > aren't allowed to distribute a modified Firefox and still use the > trademarked Firefox logo and name. > > Their reasoning was that you could patch Firefox to suck, and that would > tarnish the brand. On the other hand, not allowing modification and > redistribution violates Debian's free software guidelines. > > If we don't care about downstream patched versions that use the Sage > branding, this won't be a problem. If we do, then they can rebrand or > not patch. I don't see it as much of a problem.
We can come up with an official policy statement on the use of the Sage trademark. It would *not* allow what is at http://www.sagetrac.org, but would allow every other use of "sage" I've ever seen so far. > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
