Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Tuesday 23 September 2008 02:15, Gunnar Wolf wrote: I strongly consider seconding Wouter's message, although I'd like to word it less Mozilla-specific (as it is not a punishment against Mozilla itself, and there are _many_ trademarked projects shipping in Debian). I'm waiting a bit on

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-23 Thread MJ Ray
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 07:39:43PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Debian's people (i.e. debian-legal and so, even equiped with all the TINLA and IANAL disclaimers) are a well regarded and quite well informed body in this regard. Well-regarded by whom? I

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-23 Thread MJ Ray
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'm arguing that we should not take positions on general political matters around free software that don't affect us. [...] The Mozilla Foundation and Corporation approaches to trademarks have affected us repeatedly in the past. There are also

Re: Proposed vote on issue of the day: trademarks and free software

2008-09-23 Thread Russ Allbery
MJ Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Most individual members of the Debian project cannot join the FSF. The FSF offers a fundraising campaign called associate membership but that is not joining in anything similar to the debian project. (I think a few DDs are full members of FSF, but it's not