Nathanael Nerode wrote:
No, you stated it fine. A Free logo would be usable unmodified as the
logo for another project or website. That would probably cause
confusion with Debian, but it is a legitimate use for a Free logo.
We have accepted must-change-name clauses (which are worse) in the
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 10:45:10PM -0400, Chloe Hoffman wrote:
Companies like Apple and General Electric would be disappointed to hear
that. I think you meant that dictionary words can't be trademarked where
those words are clearly descriptive of the goods and services in association
with
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 12:15:31PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
General Electric is two words; MS has lost that game before now too
(IBM Works does not infringe Microsoft Works). Apple's probably
lawyer-bait.
The important issue with trademarks is whether or not the word or phrase
has some
Andrew Suffield wrote:
General Electric is two words; MS has lost that game before now too
(IBM Works does not infringe Microsoft Works). Apple's probably
lawyer-bait.
How about Boots, Caterpillar, Dell, Ford, Game, Nestle, Shell, Sky,
Next, etc.? Are all these trademarks lawyer-bait as
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:43:23PM +0100, Lewis Jardine wrote:
Andrew Suffield wrote:
General Electric is two words; MS has lost that game before now too
(IBM Works does not infringe Microsoft Works). Apple's probably
lawyer-bait.
How about Boots, Caterpillar, Dell, Ford, Game,
Lewis Jardine wrote:
Josh Triplett wrote:
A Free logo would be usable unmodified as the
logo for another project or website. That would probably cause
confusion with Debian, but it is a legitimate use for a Free logo.
- Josh Triplett
Trademarks are fundamentally different from
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On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:34:08PM +0100, Lewis Jardine wrote:
Josh Triplett wrote:
A Free logo would be usable unmodified as the
logo
Josh Triplett wrote:
A Free logo would be usable unmodified as the
logo for another project or website. That would probably cause
confusion with Debian, but it is a legitimate use for a Free logo.
- Josh Triplett
Trademarks are fundamentally different from copyrights. Things which are
too
On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 03:34:08PM +0100, Lewis Jardine wrote:
Josh Triplett wrote:
A Free logo would be usable unmodified as the
logo for another project or website. That would probably cause
confusion with Debian, but it is a legitimate use for a Free logo.
- Josh Triplett
Trademarks
No, you stated it fine. A Free logo would be usable unmodified as the
logo for another project or website. That would probably cause
confusion with Debian, but it is a legitimate use for a Free logo.
We have accepted must-change-name clauses (which are worse) in the past based
on the reasoning
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Josh Triplett wrote:
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Trademark license:
You may use this logo or a modified version of it to refer to Debian.
You may not use this logo, or any confusingly similar logo, to refer to
anything else in a way which might cause confusion with Debian.
MJ Ray wrote:
I suspect a first step is to split the licences into copyright and
trademark sections if possible.
That's not necessarily necessary if it's a very permissive license and is
written very carefully, but it is probably a good idea.
I assume this needs to be a US law
copyright
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Here's my model no-nonsense license (for the Open Use logo; I'm not going
to worry about the other one).
Copyright license:
You may copy, distribute, modify, and distribute modified versions of this
logo.
Good idea to make distribute modified versions explicit, but
Josh Triplett wrote:
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Here's my model no-nonsense license (for the Open Use logo; I'm not
going to worry about the other one).
Copyright license:
You may copy, distribute, modify, and distribute modified versions of
this logo.
Good idea to make distribute
On 2004-07-10 23:13:50 +0100 Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
IMHO, Debian logos should be DFSG-free. Their appropriate use should
be
enforced via trademark laws, not copyright ones, if this is possible.
Great. Please review
MJ Ray wrote:
On 2004-07-10 23:13:50 +0100 Francesco Poli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMHO, Debian logos should be DFSG-free. Their appropriate use should be
enforced via trademark laws, not copyright ones, if this is possible.
Great. Please review
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:26:08 +0100 MJ Ray wrote:
Maybe we
should show some examples of trademark terms we like? Maybe we could
even make the damn debian logo artwork into one?
I think that the Debian logo issue should really be worked out.
Having a Free OS with non-free logos is a sort of
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