Hi all,
(Context: while hunting for an RC bug to fix, I fell on #587668 and then asked
for advice on #debian-release, where a discussion was held. Here's my summary of
the issue.)
As the title of the bugreports mention, the issue is that the Debian Open Use
Logo (DOUL) with "Debian" is not compliant to the DFSG. The consensus seems to
be that it certainly fails #3 and #6, and (to some extent), #8.
* The "DOUL without 'Debian'" is DFSG-free; [DOUL]
* The "DOUL with 'Debian'" is not. [DOUL-with]
gdm, gdm-themes and desktop-base all ship some images that incorporate both the
swirl and the "Debian" part of the logo. The issue sounds to be that if the
"Debian" part of said images were "derivatived" for the DOUL-with, they would
fall under the DOUL-with license, hence non-DFSG-free (hence not suitable for
main).
Now how can those three RC bugs get solved? My understanding from reading the
three bugreports and from the discussion on #d-release is that we have a limited
set of options:
a) remove the "Debian" word on all images,
(This would make the situation clear but is not necessarily possible
without damage for all affected images.)
b) get the original author of all affected images confirm that the "Debian"
word on all images was not derivated from the DOUL-with,
c) create a "Debian" word from scratch and replace all occurences of it in all
affected images,
(Same as a); not necessarily possible without damage on all affected
images.)
d) get the DOUL-with license changed in time for Squeeze,
e) have the Release Team tag this as squeeze-ignore (that's no proper fix
though).
@debian-legal: would the solutions b) or c) be enough to ensure that the final
images would not fall under the DOUL-with license?
(My opinion is "no", but while interesting, it doesn't actually matter.)
Looking forward for more enlightening answers, cheers,
OdyX
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Didier Raboud, proud Debian Maintainer (DM).
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