Comment 13 for bug 7008

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:11:12 +0200
From: Jacobo Tarrio <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: AbiWord, trademarks, and DFSG-freeness

O Venres, 15 de Outubro de 2004 =E1s 17:50:29 +0200, Jacobo Tarrio escrib=
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> I think that trademarks are irrelevant to DFSG-freeness since if the

 Oops, I have just thought of a case where it isn't so, at least in Spain=
.
The Spanish trade mark law allows the owner of a trademark to prohibit it=
s
removal from a product.

 I don't know what I would think of a piece of software with a name that
couldn't be changed. It would make forking impossible... so now I know.
Non-free.

 But it wouldn't be the case more often. More trade mark holders are more
eager to have you NOT use their mark than the inverse ;-)

 Some hypothetical Debian Free Trade Mark Guidelines (DFTMG) would have t=
his
item: "the trade mark license must allow removing the mark from the work"=