Reminder: Do not use trademarks in Summary or Description

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Fri Jan 30 13:44:04 UTC 2009


Douglas E. Warner wrote:

> Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Trademarks_in_Summary_or_Description

> Hope you don't mind the discussion on-list; I thought further examples
> might help.
...
> The summaries for them are:
> concordance: Software to program the Logitech® Harmony® remote control
> libconcord: Library to talk to Logitech® Harmony® universal remote
> controls

> So, under this new guideline should I just remove the ®'s? 

As one who was also bitten by this, my understanding is... yes.

Even better would be to consider avoiding the use of those (possibly
trademarked) terms altogether.

-- Rex





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