[Bug 1014065] New: non-free trademark problem

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014065

Bug ID: 1014065
           Summary: non-free trademark problem
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 19
         Component: ubuntu-title-fonts
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
        QA Contact: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]

Hello.

ubuntu-title-fonts is trademark problem. Please see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1009998#c3 details.

I think that this package be affected by bug#1009998.

Suggests:

1. Change package name.

2. Remove fedora repo.

3. contact trademark owner.

Thanks.

[Bug 1014065] non-free trademark problem

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014065

mejiko  changed:

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             Blocks|                            |182235 (FE-Legal)

--- Comment #1 from mejiko  ---
Blocking FE-Legal, This is trademark problem.

[Bug 1014065] non-free trademark problem

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Mario Blättermann  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Mario Blättermann  ---
Regarding the original review request for ubuntu-keyring, there was a short
discussion about in the Fedora-legal-list [1]. Tom Callaway responsed [2], and
he discouraged us to use "ubuntu" in package names.

[1] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2013-October/002256.html
[2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2013-October/002257.html

That's why the ubuntu-title-fonts package needs either to be removed from the
Fedora repos or renamed accordingly.

[Bug 1014065] non-free trademark problem

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014065

--- Comment #3 from Nicolas Mailhot  ---
1. a font is not software
2. unbuntu-title is the actual font name chosen by upstream
3. the font license is OFL and the OFL includes specific sections about naming
an upstream can use to forbid use of a particular name. (because legal
protection of names is important for font producers : see the Reserved Font
Name section)
4. there is an explicit trademark file in the package that explains the limits
of the unbuntu-title name

Did you actually read the legal documentation included in the package?

[Bug 1014065] non-free trademark problem

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014065

Tom "spot" Callaway  changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |CLOSED
                 CC|                            |[e-mail]
         Resolution|---                         |NOTABUG
        Last Closed|                            |2014-01-28 16:39:44

--- Comment #4 from Tom "spot" Callaway  ---
Ugh. I am not a fan of how Canonical handles this, but I think it is reasonable
to infer from Trademarks-Readme.txt that their use of their trademark in the
font name is permissible (mostly because of the OFL license also in play).
Closing this as NOTABUG.