Comment 14 for bug 7008

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:40:23 -0400
From: Raul Miller <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: AbiWord, trademarks, and DFSG-freeness

On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 06:11:12PM +0200, Jacobo Tarrio wrote:
> 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 its
> removal from a product.

If we are prohibited from removing the name abiword from some derivative
form of the program, then we must be allowed to have abiword on that
derivative form.

Alternatively, once we're not allowed to have abiword on the derivative
form, we can't be prohibited from removing the name.

--
Raul

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