Comment 3 for bug 7008

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 22:35:48 +0100
From: Daniel Glassey <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Cc: Dom Lachowicz <email address hidden>
Subject: Fwd: Abiword being removed from Debian/unstable?

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Dom Lachowicz
> Date: 20 July 2004 22:08:34 BST
> To: Andy Korvemaker, <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: Abiword being removed from Debian/unstable?
>
>
> I'm not sure if this is the reason or not, but please
> see:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258918
>
> For the record, I've recently acquired the AbiWord
> trademarks and whatnot. I haven't had a chance to
> update the TM information on the website.
>
> To be expressly clear here for any Debian guys that
> read this message:
>
> Within reason, I don't care if you use "AbiWord" vs.
> "AbiWord Personal." In fact, I'd prefer it if you used
> "AbiWord."
>
> Within reason, I don't care if you use the "official"
> artwork or the "personal" artwork. In fact, I'd prefer
> it if you used the "official" artwork.
>
> I do begin to care if you use my trademarks to promote
> other products, or in ways that disparage my
> trademarks or products. If you "forked" AbiWord, you
> couldn't use the trademarks. But you're clearly not
> going to do that. The USPTO has more info and case law
> on this sort of thing.
>
> Debian and the other distros are clearly distributing
> AbiWord, and providing a beneficial service to the
> community. Even though Debian's version might have a
> few patches against our "mainline" branch, I don't
> believe it constitutes a "fork." As such, I think that
> it is fine (if not preferable) for you guys to use the
> official name and artwork in your distribution.
>
> So, you have my blessing to call your AbiWord +
> patches "AbiWord". You can use the official artwork
> too.
>
> Dom
>
> --- Andy Korvemaker wrote:
>>
>> I was checking whether a new version of Abiword was
>> available in
>> Unstable and decided to see what was holding the
>> current Unstable
>> version from moving into Testing (at
>> http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/abiword.html).
>>
>> Clicking on the "Check why" link for why it's not
>> there, it looks like
>> Abiword is scheduled for removal from Sid. See
>>
> http://bjorn.haxx.se/debian/testing.pl?package=abiword
>>
>> I'm not a Debian developer at all, so I'm not sure
>> if this is a "common"
>> occurence. But as a (relatively inexperienced) user
>> it sounds like
>> Abiword is being pulled for some reason. (I don't
>> know how to find out
>> what that reason is.)
>>
>> andy
>> --
>> Andy Korvemaker
>>
>>
>
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