[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#391935: Xen trademark might be problematic

[Bas Zoetekouw]

Package: xen-hypervisor-3.0-unstable-1-amd64
Version: 3.0-unstable+hg11561-1
Severity: serious

It seems Xen has a similar trademark policy as the much discussed
Mozilla one.  Specifically http://www.xensource.com/xen-tm-faq.html
says:

| 16. If I distribute a changed version of the Xen™ hypervisor, may I
| say that the changed product is the Xen hypervisor?
| 
| No. If you have changed an Official Version of the Xen hypervisor in
| any way, then you have created something that is not an Official
| Version of the Xen hypervisor. Because such a code base is entirely
| beyond the oversight and quality control processes of XenSource, you
| may not use the Xen™ trademark in any way in connection with your
| product, and must use a different trademark for your product that will
| not cause confusion with the Xen trademark or any other XenSource
| trademark.

This seems to make it impossible for Debian to patch released xen
packages when security related bugs occur.  


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