> In Trademark the relevant concept is Nominal Use, which is protected by legal precedent. Changelogs and email addresses certainly represent a nominal use of a trademark.
The Canonical IP policy does not grant permission for nominal use of Canonical's trademarks within packages derived from Ubuntu. Since Canonical are in a position to impose additional restrictions on the (non-GPLed) packages they distribute, this is perfectly legal. It'd be easy for Canonical to make it clear which uses of their trademarks are permitted in the same way that Red Hat do, so your continued failure to do so inevitably results in people concluding that this is deliberate.
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Re: Comparing to Fedora / Comparing to Red Hat
Date: 2015-11-21 07:03 am (UTC)The Canonical IP policy does not grant permission for nominal use of Canonical's trademarks within packages derived from Ubuntu. Since Canonical are in a position to impose additional restrictions on the (non-GPLed) packages they distribute, this is perfectly legal. It'd be easy for Canonical to make it clear which uses of their trademarks are permitted in the same way that Red Hat do, so your continued failure to do so inevitably results in people concluding that this is deliberate.