www/distros common-distros.html

[Richard M. Stallman]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Richard M. Stallman <rms>       15/05/28 16:26:05

Modified files:
        distros        : common-distros.html 

Log message:
        Ubuntu's trademark policy seems ok.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/distros/common-distros.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.86&r2=1.87

Patches:
Index: common-distros.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/distros/common-distros.html,v
retrieving revision 1.86
retrieving revision 1.87
diff -u -b -r1.86 -r1.87
--- common-distros.html 30 Apr 2015 21:24:25 -0000      1.86
+++ common-distros.html 28 May 2015 16:26:04 -0000      1.87
@@ -192,11 +192,6 @@
 Linux, the kernel, included in Ubuntu contains firmware blobs.</p>
 
 <p>
-Ubuntu's trademark policy prohibits commercial redistribution of exact
-copies of Ubuntu, denying an important freedom.
-</p>
-
-<p>
 As of October 2012, Ubuntu
 <a 
href="http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/10/does-ubuntus-amazon-lens-break-eu-law";>
 sends personal data about users' searches</a> to a server belonging to
@@ -210,6 +205,23 @@
 developer persists in keeping a malicious feature in its version of a
 program.</p>
 
+<p>Ubuntu <a 
href="http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-property-policy#your-use-of-ubuntu";>appears
+to permit commercial redistribution of exact copies with the
+trademarks</a>; removal of the trademarks is required only for
+modified versions.  That is an acceptable policy for trademarks.  The
+same page, further down, makes a vague and ominous statement about
+&ldquo;Ubuntu patents,&rdquo; without giving enough details to show
+whether that constitutes aggression or not.</a>
+
+<p>That page spreads confusion by using the misleading
+term <a href="/philosophy/not-ipr.html">"intellectual property
+rights"</a>, which falsely presumes that trademark law and patent law
+and several other laws belong in one single conceptual framework.  Use
+of that term is harmful, without exception, so after making a
+reference to someone else's use of the term, we should always reject
+it.  However, that is not a substantive issue about Ubuntu as a
+GNU/Linux distribution.</p>
+
 <h2>Some Other Distros</h2>
 
 <p>Here we discuss some well-known or significant non-GNU/Linux system
@@ -317,7 +329,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2015/04/30 21:24:25 $
+$Date: 2015/05/28 16:26:04 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>