Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks

Posted Jan 13, 2005 11:29 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks by piman
Parent article: Debian and Mozilla - a study in trademarks

More important: Debian is not allowed to change one byte of plain.tex without changing the name. For that matter, they are not allowed to change the TeX program outside of certain exactly defined code sections, without changing its name. Believe me, I know DEK since 1983: he and the AMS (who are the actual copyright and trademark holder) are serious about that topic.

And the debian-legal folks don't take exception to that; but cause great stink for LaTeX (before the latest LPPL) and for Mozilla. This is hypocrisy.

Disclaimer: I'm associated with the LaTeX project. (Do a whois on latex-project.org :-) I'm not involved in the Mozilla project.

Joachim