Am 27.08.2024 11:58 schrieb Roberto A. Foglietta:
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 11:34, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote:
If your goal is to prevent your project name or logo from being used in
ways that would be misleading to users/consumers (for example "passing
off" an extensively modified version of your software as being the
original, so that the developer of the modified version can benefit
from your good reputation), then trademarks are the legal tool that's
designed for that, not copyright. A strategy used in some projects (for
example Firefox, Python, and Debian itself) is to have a Free Software
*copyright* license for the logo, combined with a *trademark* license
that has restrictions. Debian allows this.

Which is nothing else than a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 in practice, after all.

This sounds to me that it is not clear if "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0" is allowed in Debian GNU/Linux or not. Am I right? I was posting on that list in expectation that there might be a clear statement or policy rule. From the Python group I experience that there are always rules for nearly every detail when it comes to packaging. Isn't there a list of accepted licences? Or is there an official Debian institution I can ask about it?

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