Re: Your comment on book-draft? Programming Essentials with Guile Scheme

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> Fri, 01 Aug 2025 00:02:24 +0200

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"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> writes:

> Felix Lechner <[email protected]> writes:
>> If I were truly worried that the FSF was offended by my use of the GNU
>> trademark, I would check with them.
>> …
>> For example, I would avoid the impression that the owner endorsed my
>> work.  I might even say in a footnote that they didn't.
>
> That’s a good point, yes. I just added that to the preface:
> …
> Adding quotes and a link sounds like a practical way to make it work as
> the quote it is intended to work: help people recognize that the book
> teaches them Guile, the language to script GNU.
> …
> I’ll reach out to GNU again.

I received a reply that the way the trademark GNU is used on the cover
OK with them:

"We believe that this means you are using GNU to refer to GNU and FSF in
 an accurate way." -- from the reply

Thank you again for your hints!

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
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