Bug 453246

Summary:	Linux trademark attribution for legal notice
Product:	[Community] Publican	Reporter:	Murray McAllister <mmcallis>
Component:	publican	Assignee:	Ryan Lerch <rlerch>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Michael Hideo <mhideo>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	2.0	CC:	bforte, jfearn, mmcallis, publican-list, vdanen
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Description Murray McAllister 2008-06-28 10:42:14 UTC

Description of problem:

Not sure if the legal notice is the right place, and I am not a lawyer, but the
following attribution statement should be included somewhere (since almost all
books will contain "Linux" somewhere):

Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other
countries.

See the last comments in RT3 #24123 for a response from LMI, and search for
"trademark of Linus Torvalds" in RT3 #24548 for the response from Red Hat legal
(let me know if you need help finding it).

Cheers.

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2008-06-28 10:49:11 UTC

See <http://www.linuxmark.org/attribution.php> for further details if required.

Comment 2 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2008-10-17 04:10:29 UTC

Legal issues should be fixed ASAP

Comment 3 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2008-11-24 06:23:51 UTC

This needs to be dealt with.

Comment 4 Jeff Fearn 🐞 2008-11-24 06:32:54 UTC

Perhaps one approach to this would be to add a file that would embed a list of legal attributions on the legal page..

Then we could have a default attribution page which contains a large list of attributions which are commented out. Then people can copy the page and uncomment the attributions they need, or add other ones.

Comment 5 Murray McAllister 2008-11-24 21:45:22 UTC

Here are some that legal looked over:

<http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.7.0/referenceGuide/html/trademarks.html>

Not sure if the exact ones apply to everyone's situation...

Comment 6 Michael Hideo 2008-11-25 03:52:27 UTC

Upon careful consideration the line:

<para>All other trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners.</para> already in included in the Legal_Notice will suffice as it has been checked over by Legal. Resolving as NOTABUG.