Comment 1 for bug 7008

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 02:23:52 -0500
From: Branden Robinson <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: abiword: Debian appears to be violating AbiWord's license

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Package: abiword
Version: 2.0.7+cvs.2004.05.05-1
Severity: serious

Please see the following mailing list discussion.

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:14:03PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Dagfinn Ilmari Manns=E5ker wrote:
> > Josh Triplett <email address hidden> writes:
> >=20
> >>For example, "Abiword" is a trademarked name; Abisource requires that
> >>modified versions of Abiword are either called "Abiword Personal", or
> >>that they don't have "Abiword" in the name. This is a perfectly
> >>reasonable application of a trademark to Free Software, and Debian
> >>distributes of Abiword using the branding "Abiword Personal".
> >=20
> > Not as far as I can se:
> >=20
> > Description: WYSIWYG word processor based on GTK2/GNOME2
> > AbiWord is the first application of a complete, open source office
> > suite. The upstream source includes cross-platform support for
> > Win32, BeOS, and QNX as well as GTK+ on Unix.
> > .
> > This package contains the AbiWord binary built with GTK2/GNOME2.
> >=20
> > Neither the GNOME menu entry, the splash screen, the window title nor
> > the about box mention "Personal" in any way.
> >=20
> >>From what I see at
> > <http://www.abisource.com/information/license/personal.phtml> the source
> > they distribute should automatically brand itself "AbiWord Personal",
> > but the source only mentions "Personal build" (or anything resembling)
> > in the Windows .nsi installer files.
>=20
> Interesting. I was almost certain that at one point Abiword was branded
> "Abiword Personal" in Debian, and used the blue ant graphics rather than
> the official graphics. However, checking again, I see that this is not
> the case in either the stable or unstable versions. This is definitely
> a violation of the Abiword license, and should be submitted as a serious
> bugreport on the abiword package.

Filed.

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