On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:46:22PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 08:53:47PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > >True, but the swirl logo fails the DFSG as well, as you can only use it > > >to refer to the project, and it doesn't allow explicitly other uses. > > > Quite correct. It should be relicensed, under a permissive copyright > > licence, with a note saying: > > * This copyright license does not grant a trademark license. If it is > > applied to a trademark, you should be sure that you are not violating > > trademark rights. > > > It should be trademarked by SPI as a trademark representing the Debian > > Project. > > > I believe this would solve all problems. > > Yet this is a solution looking for a problem. I can't think of any good > reason why Debian would *want* to distribute the official logo as part > of the distro itself, if we also want it to be redistributed by third > parties who we don't want to use said logo. So why does it matter > whether the logo is available under a free license?
I believe that Nathanael is refering to the Open Use Logo, which does ship with the distribution. Simon