Adam Bolte
Given that the Debian project rejects [some works under] the GNU Free Documentation License from main - a stance which I strongly disagree with - I'm surprised they consider trademarks at all for the same kind of reasoning.
As for the Debian project considering trademark restrictions for software freedom, why does that surprise you? All the works in Debian are software, and all of them must be freely licensed by the Debian project's social contract. It doesn't matter whether the restrictions come from patent, copyright, trademark, contract, trade secret, or any other branch of law that limits the freedom of ideas. They all matter if they would impact the freedom of recipients of Debian. So it seems natural to me that the Debian project would consider a restriction based in any of those laws to be important for the freedom of a work. Why does that surprise you? -- \ “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” | `\ —Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 | _o__) | Ben Finney