You say that it's "a huge pain in the ass" to rebuild the binaries. Is it really? Given a list of packages/deb's, it's maybe a 10 line script to rebuild the packages using the same name. [ create subdirectory, cd into subdirectory, apt-get source command, apt-get build-dep command, dpkg-source command,dpkg-buildpackage, copy out the resulting deb ]
With GPLv2 and GPLv3 (and most other OS licenses), recompiling would put you completely into framework of trademark law. Trademark law is easy since the standard is "likelihood of confusion". Thus, once you've rebuilt the package and as long as you aren't infringing on trademark (and as you say, "Realistically, there's no risk of confusion by using the trademarks in this way" for most packages), you are done.
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Is it all that hard?
Date: 2015-07-24 06:20 pm (UTC)With GPLv2 and GPLv3 (and most other OS licenses), recompiling would put you completely into framework of trademark law. Trademark law is easy since the standard is "likelihood of confusion". Thus, once you've rebuilt the package and as long as you aren't infringing on trademark (and as you say, "Realistically, there's no risk of confusion by using the trademarks in this way" for most packages), you are done.