On 2004-09-22 23:22:45 +0100 Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
A trademark license *has* to prohibit such things. Prohibiting
misrepresenting the origin of the *logo* doesn't suffice. We have to
require that the logo, and anything "confusingly similar", is not
used to
identify things which aren't Debian.
Aren't the debian trademarks restricted to a specified scope? As I
understand English law: if debian is a computing-related trademark,
its licence should not forbid use of the debian logo for a distributor
of replacement body parts, for example, because that is far beyond
what the trademark gives. I think forgetting that is the root of
trying to use copyright law to create "supertrademarks".
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