[mythtv-users] Trademark Issue with "Packages - MythTV Official Wiki" and the repository is questionable for Debian users

[Tom Lichti]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 6:55 AM, <mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:

>
> Quoting Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org>:
>
>  I am looking into running a MythTV frontend on Debian's stable release
>> wheezy with the backend running Mythbuntu's .27 fixes branch from the
>> Launchpad PPA.  I'm still looking into how I might do that and
>> unfortunately I have more questions like Why isn't MythTV in the
>> official Debian archives yet and what do we need to do you get them
>> there...  I would think it wouldn't be too much work to use the
>> Mythbuntu packages in Debian, but then we would have other trademark
>> issues that require a license from Canonical...  Hopefully we can see
>> some official Debian MythTV packages by christmas, does anyone want to
>> help?
>>
>
>
>  Let me be clear I am not accusing anyone of doing something
>> intentionally wrong.  I just want MythTV and Debian users to be able to
>> run reliable packages easily and not worry about these sometimes messy
>> trademark issues.
>>
>
>
By your logic, we also need to get some kind of permission (and I'm not
exactly sure what you are asking for here) from Microsoft, Red Hat,
Canonical, Apple, etc to list those packages as well?

Tom
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