Comments on: Ubuntu Trade Dress – Derivatives

By: Martin Owens

Martin Owens — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:52:56 +0000

Sort of, I believe Mozilla simply claim that their trademarks can only be used on officially released versions of their software, no derivatives can use their trademarks. not sure if they have a trade dress policy or not.

By: Kevin Mark

Kevin Mark — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:48:06 +0000

would this be similar to what Debian did for Mozilla Firefox in creating Iceweasle and co.?

By: Antonio Roberts

Antonio Roberts — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:00:44 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if it did. Even though it’s based on open source and relies on the community Canonical is a commercial company with a product and brand, Ubuntu, that it will have to protect just like every other company

By: João Pinto

João Pinto — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:06:41 +0000

I just hope it doesn’t turn something like:
http://en.opensuse.org/Making_a_SUSE_based_distribution