Hi, Sune Vuorela <nos...@vuorela.dk> writes: > Is upstart a canonical trademark? some pieces of software in the archive > with canonical trademarks in their names? SHould we consider renaming > them?
According to the footer on their homepage[1], "Upstart" is a trademark of Canonical Ltd., but I could not find a usage policy for it. Canonical's trademark policy[2] doesn't mention "Upstart" specifically and is mostly concerned about the "Ubuntu" mark. For this it makes sense to require modified versions to not be called "Ubuntu", but the situation is a bit different with Upstart as Debian might need to patch it (for example due to the CLA[3], differences between Debian and Ubuntu or just backporting bug fixes). Are those modified versions still allowed to be called "Upstart"? Would Debian and Debian-derived distributions (besides Canonical's Ubuntu) need a trademark license? Or would Debian need to rename Upstart (like Iceweasel)? Ansgar [1] <http://upstart.ubuntu.com/> [2] <http://www.ubuntu.com/intellectual-property-policy> [3] <https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/upstart#Cons> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y54wsiqv.fsf...@deep-thought.43-1.org
