Re: GNOME trademark guidelines and user group agreement

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, David Neary wrote:

> Let's say that it was a mistake, or that distributing the foot under the
> GPL is incompatible with defending it as a trademark - what remedy do
> you think we should consider?

Seems like that's what redhat does these days: releasing their
product which is Free Software, but you cannot redistribute due
to trademarks.  Don't flame me for what I just said, it's here:

  http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html


behdad

> Cheers,
> Dave.
>
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >>That's what it says. I believe that we are going to handle logo
> >>modifications on a case-by-case basis. Please let us know if you want to
> >>use a modified logo, and as long as it's a reasonable usage, there will
> >>be no problem.
> >
> >
> > The logo has repeatedly been supplied as part of official GNOME
> > distribution products labelled as GPL and when this has been pointed out
> > the board has neither replied nor taken action to correct or indicate
> > this was a mistake.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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