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Trademarks: A threat tofree software's freedom? (NewsForge)Trademarks: A threat tofree software's freedom? (NewsForge)Posted Nov 6, 2004 2:31 UTC (Sat) by Duncan (guest, #6647)In reply to: Trademarks: A threat to free software's freedom? (NewsForge) by JoeBuck Parent article: Trademarks: A threat to free software's freedom? (NewsForge)
I'm not a Debianite (I am a Gentooist), but as I have an interest in free
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Trademarks: A threat tofree software's freedom? (NewsForge) Posted Nov 6, 2004 3:07 UTC (Sat) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] Presumably, for the icons, distros could decide that the packages including the original icons are not free, and simply replace the trademarked icons with a distro-branded (or otherwise non-trademarked) set of icons. Names are possibly more of a problem, because it may not be easy to replace the names of programs and have anyone able to find them, or even be sure to change every occurance.
Does author of GPL software need to provide alternatives? Posted Nov 8, 2004 15:55 UTC (Mon) by justme (guest, #19967) [Link] AFAIK, Firefox is not GPL'd. But your example brings up a question: if an author of GPL'd software claims that certain parts of the source distribution (e.g. the icons) cannot be freely modified, then does the author need to provide alternate icons in order for there to be a source set that is completely buildable, modifiable, and redistributable?
Or is it assumed that anyone who wishes to modify the name and icons would modify them all together? That seems like a stretch.
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