Re: BSD license with Mozilla-style name clause

2009-01-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Luke Faraone: > Would retitling the package "carol" or "wonderland" be sufficient to > make the package DFSG-free? There is ample precedent that the license is DFSG-compliant as such. If you want to be completely sure, you could ask the copyright holder if it is acceptable to include it in Debi

Re: BSD license with Mozilla-style name clause

2009-01-09 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message <20090108232546.5a3d9873@firenze.linux.it>, Francesco Poli writes But anyway, there *has* to be a trademark to begin with, in order for trademark laws to apply. I don't know whether "Alice" is a trademark or is eligible to become one. I don't know about US law, but certainly in

Re: BSD license with Mozilla-style name clause

2009-01-08 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:43:41 +0100 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 07 janvier 2009 à 23:19 +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : > > > I think it would also be enough to obtain a permission from the authors > > > to call Debian modified versions "Alice", as long as renaming it is easy > > > otherw

Re: BSD license with Mozilla-style name clause

2009-01-08 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 07 janvier 2009 à 23:19 +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : > > I think it would also be enough to obtain a permission from the authors > > to call Debian modified versions "Alice", as long as renaming it is easy > > otherwise. We have allowed such things in the past. > > I don't think the

Re: BSD license with Mozilla-style name clause

2009-01-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:53:31 +0100 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 07 janvier 2009 à 09:25 -0500, Luke Faraone a écrit : > > Hi, I'm interested in packaging Alice (RFP: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500648), but it's > > license

Re: BSD license with Mozilla-style name clause

2009-01-07 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 07 janvier 2009 à 09:25 -0500, Luke Faraone a écrit : > Hi, I'm interested in packaging Alice (RFP: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500648), but it's > license has naming > restrictions similar to Mozilla. > > Would retit

BSD license with Mozilla-style name clause

2009-01-07 Thread Luke Faraone
Hi, I'm interested in packaging Alice (RFP: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=500648), but it's license has naming restrictions similar to Mozilla. Would retitling the package "carol" or "wonderland" be sufficient to make the package DFS