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Re:"Social Contract" [anti-trust]

From: Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au>
> Why not just trademark "Debian", and give everyone a free license to use
> the trademark - explicityly reserving the right to revoke any individual
> or company's license at any time for (tarnishing the reputation of
> debian|other heinous crimes).

Rather than reserve the right to revoke a license, one simply never issues
a license for certain kinds of malice-aforethought activity. Thus, when someone
does such things, they are immediately in violation, rather than having to wait
for their license to be revoked and for them to receive proper legal notice
before they are in violation.

> this is just an idea...i'm not sure if it would be legally valid -
> giving the license for free may invalidate the trademark or something.

I'll have to look into that, however I know of many organizations that issue
"proper use of trademark" guidelines without charging for trademark use.

> Anyone that tried something evil would have
> their reputation completely and irrevocably destroyed by hordes of
> debian & linux enthusiasts.

Evil people don't care about their reputations. It's nice to have a little
legal force, even if you never use it.

	Bruce
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