On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 08:12 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roberto Ragusa wrote: > > Some more tags for "functionally comparable to" and the name of > > some well known programs for Windows or Macintosh would let > > people cope with the original names of Linux apps. > > > > Nero -> k3b, xcdroast > > Adobe Illustrator -> inkscape > > Adobe Reader -> evince, kpdf, okular > > I think that would not fly for trademark reasons. I know there are sites > which do that kind of mapping and that some upstream projects advertise > their program as "comparable with (popular proprietary program XYZ)", but > they're treading on a very fine line legally. I don't know where the law stands, but the current packaging guidelines prohibit this kind of comparison in package summaries: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Trademarks_in_Summary_or_Description "BAD: It is similar to Adobe Photoshop." -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
