On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 11:54:09AM -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 126 lines which said:
> Debian either needs a trademark license from the NetBSD Foundation > for use of the "NetBSD" mark, or it does not. Legally speaking, you're right. Now, on more practical grounds, I do not think that the NetBSD Foundation threatened to sue us. I believe that they feared confusion and asked politely, as an humble request from fellow free software developers, to consider a change in the name. I do not think debian-legal is concerned: it is not an issue of being right with trademark law, it's an issue of not pissing off NetBSD people for no good reason.
