The debian-private mailing list leak, part 1. Volunteers have complained about Blackmail. Lynchings. Character assassination. Defamation. Cyberbullying. Volunteers who gave many years of their lives are picked out at random for cruel social experiments. The former DPL's girlfriend Molly de Blanc is given volunteers to experiment on for her crazy talks. These volunteers never consented to be used like lab rats. We don't either. debian-private can no longer be a safe space for the cabal. Let these monsters have nowhere to hide. Volunteers are not disposable. We stand with the victims.
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re:"Social Contract" [anti-trust]

On Jun 26, Dale Scheetz wrote
> I have created a product that I call "Drop in Debian" or DiD that I
> distribute on my CDs, as a value added product. If SPI becomes the only
> entity that is allowed to use the name Debian, I will have to rename the
> product something like "Drop in *nix of the third kind" which has a gross
> acronym.

> I'm pretty sure that a trademark is too restrictive a mechanism for this
> association. I'm not sure how you would get standing, but something like a
> "freemark" might be an interesting exersize for some aspiring young
> lawyer.

That is probably closer to what I had in mind; a means to have some control
over what projects we (the Debian developers) are associated with.

On Jun 26, Bruce Perens wrote
> From: Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
> > The use of Debian as a starting
> > oint for other distributions is only useful if the other distribution can
> > dvertise that it is using Debian.
> 
> My intent so far has been to restrict the words "Official" and "Debian"
> together in a product name to be used only for exactly that data which
> Debian releases as its official CD set, and only for the complete set,
> not for the binary CD without source.
> 
> In addition, I would restrict the use of the "Debian" trademark in
> certain malice-aforethought situations such as insertion of viruses,
> time-bombs, deliberate damage to the system with intent to defame,
> etc. It's a lot easier to get damages for a trademark violation than
> it is for libelous action. 
> 
> This is a lot less than BSD-style restriction.

OK. I was hungry and sleepy when I wrote "BSD-style restriction". The policy
you describe here sounds fine to me.

Ray - who should be clearer about his bad examples 
-- 
Obsig: developing a new sig


--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
debian-private-request@lists.debian.org . 
Trouble?  e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .