Craig Small <csmall <at> debian.org> writes: > "tentacles of evil" problem. Trademark isn't all about trust, it's > also about control. We, unfortunately, cannot ignore it but we have > to deal with it our way. > > All of the sections in the DFSG are important. We could of, when > framing the DFSG, gone the easy path and not had a section 8 but we > didn't. To me the requirements that we will not accept a
You can't trust entities like Debian to stay "good" forever. The only practical way to maintain trust is to maintain some degree of control. You can't enumerate all the possible kinds of badness you'd want to forbid, and then grant a blanket trademark license to everyone allowing everything else. You seem to have ignored or failed to understand what I said about DFSG vs trademarks. You really can't expect to apply DFSG to trademark requirements. That say Firefox is distributed under a DFSG-free license means that any idiot who thinks it's a great idea to create a browser that replaces all web page pictures with Goatse images is free to use Firefox code to achieve his goal. However, trademarks are meant to protect against him calling the result Firefox. "Firefox" is not a browser that replaces all images with Goatse pictures. Trademarks are supposed to show that DFSG freedoms have not been exercised; it makes no sense to require ability to use them in a DFSG-free manner. If you want to allow doing all modifications permitted by the DFSG (which includes obnoxious ones) without the effort of rebranding, then you must remove all use of trademarks from Debian, including the Debian trademark itself. No trademark license can allow using the same trademark with arbitrarily modified versions without rendering the trademark completely meaningless. If you accept that some changes may require users to do rebranding anyway, then I see no fundamental objection to some forms of Debian-specific trademark licenses. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/loom.20120220t153829-...@post.gmane.org
