Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Don Armstrong wrote: > This is something that should be worked out with the Ubuntu One > developers and/or Ubuntu people. So long as we and all of our > downstream have the ability to exercise the rights guaranteed by the > DFSG via a trademark grant (or probably even just e-ma

Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?]

2010-08-18 Thread MJ Ray
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" > On 11.08.2010 07:27, Steve Langasek wrote: > > If the source code of a package shipped in Debian is identical to that > > provided upstream under the same name, there is no license issue; this is > > nominative use which is not prohibited, regardless of the existence of a

trademarks [Was: Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?]

2010-08-17 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Hello list, it follows some comments, corrections and questions about trademarks, based on Steve answer; not realyl relevant to the initial question/bug. On 11.08.2010 07:27, Steve Langasek wrote: If the source code of a package shipped in Debian is identical to that provided upstream under th

Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-11 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:48:36PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > I had been looking at this bug for a few days now > as well the the Ubuntu Trademark Policy [1]. I am > not a legal person, so I would like to bring it to > the attention of people who are, to see if this policy > makes the applic

Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-10 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 12:48:36PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > I had been looking at this bug for a few days now > as well the the Ubuntu Trademark Policy [1]. I am > not a legal person, so I would like to bring it to > the attention of people who are, to see if this policy > makes the applic

Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-10 Thread René Mayorga
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 04:11:10PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, René Mayorga wrote: > > How about Ubuntu™ One client (#559752), I think that this could > > affect those efforts too. > > Not sure. Parts of it are certainly something that trademark could > apply to. [I think it

Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, René Mayorga wrote: > How about Ubuntu™ One client (#559752), I think that this could > affect those efforts too. Not sure. Parts of it are certainly something that trademark could apply to. [I think it's ok if it was "works with Ubuntu One", but the "Ubuntu One client" may be

Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-10 Thread René Mayorga
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 02:26:25PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Walter Landry wrote: > > This makes it clearly non-free. It is best to just replace anything > > trademarked by Ubuntu. > > An important caveat though, is that not every use of the word Ubuntu > is trademarkable.

Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-10 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Walter Landry wrote: > This makes it clearly non-free. It is best to just replace anything > trademarked by Ubuntu. An important caveat though, is that not every use of the word Ubuntu is trademarkable. So while the package in question certainly should be rebranded, it's not

Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-10 Thread Walter Landry
Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > I had been looking at this bug for a few days now > as well the the Ubuntu Trademark Policy [1]. I am > not a legal person, so I would like to bring it to > the attention of people who are, to see if this policy > mak

Re: Ubuntu trademark non-free - added link

2010-08-10 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sorry, I left out the footnote on my last email. The link to the document covering usage of the Ubuntu trademark is here: http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy - -- Jordan Metzmeier -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GN

Ubuntu trademark non-free?

2010-08-10 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I had been looking at this bug for a few days now as well the the Ubuntu Trademark Policy [1]. I am not a legal person, so I would like to bring it to the attention of people who are, to see if this policy makes the application non-free in its curren