Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, iceweasel and Thunderbird

2006-10-11 Thread stude . list
On 11/10/06, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe trademarks are registered and the owner needs to control use > of the mark or they can lose the trademark status. UK Patent Office: > Your trade mark does not have to be registered but > an unregistered mark will rely on the common la

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, iceweasel and Thunderbird

2006-10-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 11/10/06, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm pretty sure its only copyright that's automatic, not trademarks. That's correct. > I believe trademarks are registered and the owner needs to control use > of the mark or they can lose the trademark status. Kleenex had this > problem m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting approved

2006-10-11 Thread Nicholas Butler
Isnt this all being defined by Jono to start with ? Is this a function of the Local Loco teams or just the Loco ( UKTeam ) ? Nik -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, iceweasel and Thunderbird

2006-10-11 Thread Tony Arnold
On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 21:56 +0100, Daniel Taylor wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On a tangent, aren't trademarks automatic? How does this affect other > > packages, if I produce an application does that mean I can force > > distros to renam

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, iceweasel and Thunderbird

2006-10-11 Thread Daniel Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On a tangent, aren't trademarks automatic? How does this affect other > packages, if I produce an application does that mean I can force > distros to rename it, and is the policy on trademark to ignore i till > someone compla

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting approved

2006-10-11 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:53:43PM +0100, Jono Bacon wrote: > Hey, > > I think the group may want to look at > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingApproved to get approved. I have just > started optimising the approval process and wrote that page. There is > some good work going on here so think th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, iceweasel and Thunderbird

2006-10-11 Thread gord
you might want to take a look at this article ( http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/09/1434251 ) to see how thunderbird escaped the wrath of trademark issues. "If any of this sounds faintly familiar, it may be because a similar issue arose prior to the last Debian version release, Sarge, and

[ubuntu-uk] Firefox, iceweasel and Thunderbird

2006-10-11 Thread stude . list+ubuntuuk
Hi I'm sure by now everyone has heard about the issue between Debain and Mozilla over the use of the name FireFox. It looks like they are going to go ahead with a switch. I was just wondering if this is going to affect Thunderbird? Isn't Thunderbird under trademark the same way FireFox is? The co

[ubuntu-uk] Getting approved

2006-10-11 Thread Jono Bacon
Hey, I think the group may want to look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoGettingApproved to get approved. I have just started optimising the approval process and wrote that page. There is some good work going on here so think the group should look to get approved. :) Jono -- Jono Bacon Ub

[ubuntu-uk] antialiasing ssh X sessions

2006-10-11 Thread Albert Vilella
Hi all, I am trying to get antialiasing working on my laptop for an emacs GUI generated from an ssh X session on a computer at work. Does anybody know if it is possible to have such thing workng? Can antialiasing be achieved for programs running on other computers, where no antialiased font serve