Policy about trademarks

[Miriam Ruiz]

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? Any better ideas?

Greetings,
Miry