On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 06:31:47PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > See the thread "Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo" in the > debian-project archives for 10/2003. I believe some trademark committee > was mentioned as looking into the logo licenses.
I can't find much reference to the Official Use logo in that thread, except for a couple threading references to the "Bug#212895: Official Logo is not DFSG Free" thread. I didn't read the whole thread, though, I only googled a bit. I think that if the Official Use logo was going to be "freed", it may as well be discarded. (I agree that that Open Use logo should be DFSG-free, and I think that's what the trademark committee was looking at.) > It serves no purpose now. The license is badly worded, has bizarre > exceptions (You can put the official logo on a t-shirt but not in a > package.) And it is the height of hypocrisy for the symbol of a free > software organization to be non-free software itself. What I believe is *not* hypocritical is Debian not allowing its own non-free logo to be included in the distribution. (In fact, it seems like a good example of Debian not making special exceptions, though some might claim that allowing the Open Use logo is a counterexample.) -- Glenn Maynard
