Trademark license compatibility with GPL and/or DFSG

2005-05-19 Thread Nicholas Jefferson
Hello. Please accept my apologies if I am flogging a dead horse. I have ST*W but I cannot find a definitive solution to this problem. I did find a thread [1] on debian-legal from last year but it had more questions than answers ;-) [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/10/msg00236.html

Trademark license compatibility with GPL and/or DFSG

2005-05-19 Thread Nicholas Jefferson
MJ Ray wrote: Who cares? Why not rename it and avoid the whole debate, if the maintainer thinks their terms might be unacceptable? I think it would be helpful if the driver was named after the technology. If the bluetooth driver was named harold and the trident driver named poseidon it would

Re: Trademark license compatibility with GPL and/or DFSG

2005-05-19 Thread Nicholas Jefferson
I'm not at all sure that all advertising or guarantee restrictions are unacceptable to us. Yes ;-) It was a poor choice of words on my part. I had intended that to mean any advertising or guarantee restrictions of the kind outlined in my original email (viz. trademarks on the splash screen and