On Sun, Mar 21, 1999 at 02:46:00AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> * Debian reserves the right to revoke the permission to use the term
> `Debian', provided there is a good reason
>
> A bit vague, but it captures the above and gives us a bit more freedom.
Why have the "provided there is a goo
Previously Darren Benham wrote:
> * You are not allowed to use "Debian" in a way that the Debian Project
> considers detrimental to its reputation.
* Debian reserves the right to revoke the permission to use the term
`Debian', provided there is a good reason
A bit vague, but it captures the a
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 22:10:20 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I see a couple of remarks being made by people:
> * we can't possibly check all uses of the term `Debian', either in
> company, product or domainnames
Domainnames is quite doable: http://www.domainsurfer.com
Currently:
Debian /
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 04:56:48PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 02:02:58PM -0800, Darren Benham wrote:
> > * You are not allowed to use Debian in a way that would be detrimental to
> > the reputation of the Debian Project.
>
> I considered something like this too, bu
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 02:02:58PM -0800, Darren Benham wrote:
> * You are not allowed to use Debian in a way that would be detrimental to
> the reputation of the Debian Project.
I considered something like this too, but I can't come up with a good way
to word it that would actually make a d
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 10:10:20PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> I see a couple of remarks being made by people:
> * we can't possibly check all uses of the term `Debian', either in
> company, product or domainnames
> * people using Debian-derived products should be free to use the term
>
I see a couple of remarks being made by people:
* we can't possibly check all uses of the term `Debian', either in
company, product or domainnames
* people using Debian-derived products should be free to use the term
`Debian'
* Putting the name Debian out there is good for us, since it makes
Please CC comments to me, as I am not subscribed to this list.
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> (Note I'm cc'ing debian-devel to get more interest in this discussion ,
> but please keep all the discussion itself on debian-legal)
>
> I see people sidestepping the real issue her
One can understand how concern would arise over the potential for random
use and misuse of the Debian mark!
To borrow an analogy given elsewhere, if I owned a Mercedes-Benz auto
dealership, then, with Mercedes-Benz' permission, I might call the
dealership Thaddeus Black Mercedes-Benz. Such a use
"J.H.M. Dassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 16:44:28 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I see people sidestepping the real issue here. The relevant question
> is: do we have any problem with a company that uses the word `Debian'
> in its name?
To me, it would
On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 16:44:28 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I see people sidestepping the real issue here. The relevant question
> is: do we have any problem with a company that uses the word `Debian'
> in its name?
To me, it would depend a lot on how much emphasis "Debian" has in the
compan
(Note I'm cc'ing debian-devel to get more interest in this discussion ,
but please keep all the discussion itself on debian-legal)
I see people sidestepping the real issue here. The relevant question
is: do we have any problem with a company that uses the word `Debian'
in its name? And related: d
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 17:45:35 -0700, Thaddeus Black wrote:
> This message is to confirm that it would indeed be acceptable for a Debian
> CD distributor to have the descriptive word Debian in its name. In the
> same way that, say, Linux System Labs has the word Linux in its name. If
> there were
On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 02:52:29 +, Paul Puri wrote:
> In addition, I would also like to know what a Debian CD distributor
> would be able to do with the logo.
>
> What are the license terms of the logo. Has it been trademarked?
See http://www.debian.org/logos/ . Not however that new logo
Marcus writes:
> Note that Debian is a trademark (I hope),...
It is at least a common-law trademark. I don't know if those are still
enforceable, though.
> ...and this would prevent it from being used as a name for a company or
> product in the computer business.
Unless the owner grants permiss
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 05:45:35PM -0700, Thaddeus Black wrote:
> This message is to confirm that it would indeed be acceptable for a Debian
> CD distributor to have the descriptive word Debian in its name. In the
> same way that, say, Linux System Labs has the word Linux in its name. If
> there
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/10/99, 4:45:35 PM, Thaddeus Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding Fair use of the word Debian:
> This message i
This message is to confirm that it would indeed be acceptable for a Debian
CD distributor to have the descriptive word Debian in its name. In the
same way that, say, Linux System Labs has the word Linux in its name. If
there were a reason a Debian CD distributor might not similarly be called
Debi
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