Trademarks

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sat Jul 2 13:06:33 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 14:22 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> Should one acknowledge trademarks somehow in all package summaries and
> descriptions in Extras?  I think yes, but I don't see this mentioned in
> the Wiki anywhere, and there are many packages that would need to be
> updated wrt. this.
> 
> For example, I'm committing an update to the kernel-module-thinkpad in a
> jiffy, with the following summary and description.  Would this be
> ok/needed in all packages that refer to US/other trademarks, or is it
> possible to have a "blanket trademark acknowledgement" somewhere?  Or
> something else?

I suspect that what you've done is correct, but it should be run past RH
legal. Greg, what does legal want us to do with regards to other
people's trademarks?

~spot
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