Re: trademark vs. renamed derivates

2014-07-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: trademark vs. renamed derivates"): > So what Steve means is that you can just say: > > This package Y is based on the program X from company Z, but > has been modified by Debian and others. But, it occurs to me to ask: What is this program ? It may be that renaming

Re: trademark vs. renamed derivates

2014-07-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Steve Langasek writes ("Re: trademark vs. renamed derivates"): > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 05:24:28PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > is there any example language for something like the following > > around already, which I could reuse? > > > “This software Y is based on the software X, which was

Re: trademark vs. renamed derivates

2014-07-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 05:24:28PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Hi everyone, > is there any example language for something like the following > around already, which I could reuse? > “This software Y is based on the software X, which was written > by the company Z; both X and Z are trademarks,

trademark vs. renamed derivates

2014-07-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi everyone, is there any example language for something like the following around already, which I could reuse? “This software Y is based on the software X, which was written by the company Z; both X and Z are trademarks, but Y is not, nor do we intend to use these trademarks (which is why we re