On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 08:53:54AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > > > > And BTW, anyway, does the debian trademark extend to textile and such ? > > > > Or is > > > > it only restricted to software products ? > > > > > > That's an interesting question and not really very well phrased and so > > > is kind of difficult to answer. > > > > That is bullshit, and you perfectly know it. Anyone with the less knowledge > > about trademark know that they are not all encompassing, but that you have > > to > > declare field of endeavour or whatever it is called. In france if you > > delclare > > a trademark you get to fill for 3-4 fields for the same price for example. > > No, trademarks aren't all encompassing. There's also copyright law > which governs the logo. There's also the issue that you're not selling > a type of t-shirt which you've decided to trademark and call 'Debian'. > There's also the issue that it's being sold at the Debian booth, etc. > It's not so simple as you're trying to make it out to be, unfortunately.
My question was plain simple, does the debian trademark extend to textiles and other t-shirt or is it only covering software ? This has a simple answer, and does not include the stuff you are speaking about, which are a separate matter. > > I guess that the debian trademark covers software and other computer related > > product, but does it covers drinks, carpentry, toys for children, > > vestimentary > > stuff, kitchen equipements and so on ? (well, not quite sure about the > > categories, but software and tshirt definitvely don't fall in the same > > category). > > No, they don't, but that's not what's at issue here and claiming it is > shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue... I have seen the word Trademark mentioned in a subject of a subthread here, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]