Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Martin Michlmayr wrote: >>I think the open use logo itself should be DFSG-free, but it probably >>should be accompanied by a trademark license. I'll contact SPI to see >>what needs to be done to change the license, and I've asked Matthew >>Garrett to discuss the trademark issue with SPI's trademark lawyer and >>others on spi-trademark. >> >>What would a good license for the logo be? > > There are two options: separate copyright and trademark licenses and a > "fused" > license. > > OPTION 1 > Copyright license: > Copyright 1999 Software in the Public Interest > Permission is hereby granted to anyone to copy, modify, display or perform > publicly, and/or redistribute this logo, with or without modifications. > (This copyright license is not intended to grant a trademark license; see > below for trademark license.) > > Trademark license: > This logo is a trademark/service mark of the Debian Project. > Permission is hereby granted to anyone to use this logo or a modified version > to refer to the Debian project. It does not indicate endorsement by the > project. > Modified versions which are sufficiently different so that they do not > consitute trademark use or infringment -- that is, those which are not likely > to cause confusion with Debian's logo in the minds of those seeing them -- > may be used for any purpose. (This trademark license is not intended to > restrict or alter the grant of copyright license; see above for copyright > license.) > > OPTION 2 > Fused license: > Copyright 1999 Software in the Public Interest > This logo is a trademark/service mark of the Debian Project. > Permission is hereby granted to anyone to copy, modify, display or perform > publicly, and/or redistribute this logo, with or without modifications. > Permission is hereby granted to anyone to use this logo or a modified version > to refer to the Debian project. It does not indicate endorsement by the > project. Additionally, permission is hereby granted to anyone to use > modified versions which are sufficiently different so that they do not > consitute trademark use or infringment (that is, those which are not likely > to cause confusion with Debian's logo in the minds of those seeing them) for > any purpose. > > --- > It should be possible to polish these a little (particularly the "constitute > trademark use or infringement" line), but this is about right.
Both of these licenses seem clearly non-free to me, since they restrict the uses of unmodified or "insufficiently different" versions. - Josh Triplett
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