[Pkg-meego-maintainers] Packaging the MeeGo stack on Debian - Use the name ?

[Don Armstrong]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2010, Ibrahim Haddad wrote:
> To start with, the goal is to avoid any confusion around what is and
> what is not MeeGo. Anything that is or will become associated with
> the MeeGo trademark has to be in conformance with the compliance
> program.

Unfortunately, there's no way that Debian can possibly comply with the
compliance specification as written. [I only got as far as §2.3 to
find an obvious deal-breaker.]

This sounds like yet another case where an unbranded name[1] is
required for actual use in the community, ala iceweasel.


Don Armstrong

1: wontgo came to mind immediately, but something slightly less
antagonistic can probably be though of.
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