Policy about trademarks

[Hans de Goede]

Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> As you probably have read in Steve's Langasek's answer to my mail, the
> current way of managing trademarks in Debian is ignoring the whole
> question. I don't agree with that at all, and I think we should take
> those matters seriously in this Team. This is not a Debian's group,
> but a cross-distro cross-system one, and obviously or decisions
> doesn't have to agree with Debian's.
> 
> As I stated before, my personal position, in abstract, in a situation
> like this, is:
> 1) Tell upstream and try to work hand-by-hand with them to solve the
> problem. The best solution, always, is upstream fixing it. Always
> count with upstrem for fixing whatever kind of problems that might be.
> 2) If upstream is non-existant and we're acting as upstreams
> ourselves, decide a common new name and use the same for all the
> distributions (that freely want to do so, of course, no impositions to
> anyone)
> 3) If upstream is active, does not acknowledge the problem or does not
> want to do anything about it:
>  a) If the game is worth it, rename it unilaterally in the team, so
> that all the distros can use that name
>  b) If the game is not really worth the effort, just ignore it
> 
> I think that if we want our trademarks to be respected, we have to
> respect the others.
> 
> Any thoughts on this procedure?

Strong +1

> Any better ideas?

Nope.

Regards,

Hans


p.s.

When we are doing this we should take a good look at the work already done by 
others (like Fedora) in renaming some of these games.