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[Matt McCutchen]

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 08:12 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> > Some more tags for "functionally comparable to" and the name of
> > some well known programs for Windows or Macintosh would let
> > people cope with the original names of Linux apps.
> > 
> > Nero -> k3b, xcdroast
> > Adobe Illustrator -> inkscape
> > Adobe Reader -> evince, kpdf, okular
> 
> I think that would not fly for trademark reasons. I know there are sites 
> which do that kind of mapping and that some upstream projects advertise 
> their program as "comparable with (popular proprietary program XYZ)", but 
> they're treading on a very fine line legally.

I don't know where the law stands, but the current packaging guidelines
prohibit this kind of comparison in package summaries:

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

"BAD: It is similar to Adobe Photoshop."

-- 
Matt