Re: trademark licenses and DFSG

2011-11-02 Thread Mike O'Connor
On Tue, 1 Nov 2011 11:12:15 -0400, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Non-text part: multipart/signed > Let's proactively assume the following "reasonable" > outcome of the legal advice I'm going to seek: > > - we are allowed (by trademark law) to ship unmodified copies of > trademark encumbered materia

Re: Question about GNOME Trademark and GNOME project packages in Debian

2011-07-15 Thread Mike O'Connor
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:01:13 +0100 (BST), MJ Ray wrote: > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > We feel that it is infeasible for Debian to be in complete compliance > > with the current GNOME trademark license. [...] > > OK, sorry if this is an old chestnut, but do we actually need a > licence in general? I

Re: my treatment in #debian

2008-06-09 Thread Mike O'Connor
>As a regular in #debian (on OPN/freenode) for over 5 years and a >contributor to the debian project, one would expect that I would be >treated slightly better by the ops than random newbies. As a regular in #debian on freenode for over 5 year, you should know that: A) you should not get into arg