[Pkg-cups-devel] Trademark issues with renaming Debian's cupsys to cups?

Martin Pitt mpitt at debian.org
Thu May 22 21:48:50 UTC 2008


Hi Michael,

Michael R Sweet [2008-05-22  8:22 -0700]:
> Every Linux and BSD distribution (and Solaris, for that matter) that
> includes CUPS also applies patches to the source - we expect a certain
> amount of that when you need to support unique functionality or want
> to tweak the default configuration we provide - all of that falls under
> the permissions granted in the license file:

Thanks for the clarifications. I'll rename the package, init script,
etc. to "cups" then. While that's a bit painful to get the transition
right, I feel it's the right thing to do.

Martin

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