Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-23 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Most individual members of the Debian project cannot join the FSF. The > FSF offers a fundraising campaign called "associate membership" but that > is not joining in anything similar to the debian project. (I think a > few DDs are full members of FSF, but it's

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-23 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] I'm arguing that we should not take > positions on general political matters around free software that don't > affect us. [...] The Mozilla Foundation and Corporation approaches to trademarks have affected us repeatedly in the past. There are also

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-23 Thread MJ Ray
Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:39:43PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Debian's people (i.e. debian-legal and so, even equiped with all the > > TINLA and IANAL disclaimers) are a well regarded and quite well > > informed body in this regard. > > Well-regarded b

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 23 September 2008 02:15, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I strongly consider seconding Wouter's message, although I'd like to > word it less Mozilla-specific (as it is not a punishment against > Mozilla itself, and there are _many_ trademarked projects shipping in > Debian). I'm waiting a bit