Making it easier to produce non-infringing derivatives

[Matthew Garrett]

Hi Mark,

The RHEL policy is actually identical to the Fedora one - there's a 
published set of packages that have to be replaced in order to deal with 
the trademark issue. I don't see this being a huge amount of ongoing 
work (how many packages get uploaded with new trademarks?), but I'm a 
bit confused by your claim that people would still need Canonical's 
permission to redistribute even if the trademarks were removed. If 
that's the case then this is obviously not worth it.
http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-property-policy 
mentions trade dress and patents as things which would require 
permission - is this what you're referring to?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org