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| DATE | 2020-02-20 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social
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Not - they are adding GNU to their names, at the behest of GNU, as a
matter of fact.
They are not claiming to be leaders of the GNU project and purposely
breaking GNU policy.
Just because an organization allows you to use their trademark for a
purpose, that doesn't give someone permition to rip it off and then
claim they are GNU leadership
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 10:57:47PM +0100, Alexandre François Garreau wrote:
> Le mercredi 12 février 2020, 19:50:49 CET Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) a
> écrit :
> > On 2020-02-10 07:32, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > > There were several pieces of feedback that were either not sent to the
> > > public list, or are still held up in moderation.
> >
> > Maybe that contract should include a few clauses about not engaging
> > in deceptive and illegal behavior.
>
> I disagree in regards to illegal. RMS and then GNU and FSF (at least by
> the past) as well supported the view according which obeying an unjust
> rule is unjust. They never prominently encouraged actively a blatant law-
> breaking, as I’ve rarely seen such ambitious initiatives in free-software
> projects, beside warez, but changing that would be a loss, and a radical
> change we shouldn’t take
>
> There’s something present in several social movement, and in
> free software and neuter/acentered internet as well that is called
> “illegalism”. It can be reconduced to civil disobedience. It is present
> in anarchism. This is a powerful tool, that’s part of «direct action”
> (something you should be familiar with, given your behavior) that free-
> software movement should be encouraged to use against hard things such as
> DRM, tivoization, deceptive/emprisoning hardware, surveillance, etc.
>
> > You should not be using the GNU logo in that website or the word "gnu"
> > in the domain name.
>
> Plenty of websites already do that. See any GLUG or free-software distro
> supportive of GNU, or even gnuplot’s website. GNU is not really regarding
> of brands.
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proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998
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