Humberto Massa Guimarães <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We're losing sight of the key issue here. We *cannot* use their >> trademark under their current trademark policy. They are offering us a >> deal that is Debian specific to allow use to use the marks. Can we >> accept such a deal as a project? Does the DFSG allow us to? > > Well said. IMHO, no. DFSG #8 -- witch is part of the SC, IIRC -- forbids us > to have rights that our users don't have.
(Your lines are too long, you're breaking threading and you seem to be dropping attribution. Can you please do something about your mail?) The social contract is not scripture. The Gods of free software did not hand it to us engraved into gold tablets. We are free to reinterpret them - we're even free to rewrite them. And, importantly, we should think about *why* they say what they do. I believe (and history seems to back me up on this) that DFSG 8 was intended to prevent a situation where our users didn't have a full set of rights to the software we provided. Can you suggest why your version is preferable? -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
