[Jaldar: I'm shifting this discussion to debian-legal and maintaining you on the Cc: list. Appologies if you are subscribed.] [Legal: I'm leaving the bug closed for right now, since I'm not interested in playing bts tennis.] On Fri, 03 Oct 2003, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: >> I'm reopening this bug because the official logo is non-free. [It >> fails multiple parts of the DFSG, including #1, #3, #6, #8... the >> list goes on.] > > The list is irrelevant as the applicability of the Debian Free > _Software_ guidelines to graphical images is even more dubious than > its applicability to documentation. When originally written, it was intented that the DFSG apply to the entire content of main.[1] We have (to my knowledge) consistently interpreted it this way. > Sorry but one or two peoples personal opinions do not make Debian > policy. I was merely linking to examples of discussion. I'm relatively certain that there is a broad consensus on -legal that the official logo is not DFSG free. [If I'm mistaken, please correct me.] > I am closing this bug again for the same reason I closed it > initially. Like treating the bubonic plague by giving the victim a > hanky, you are trying to cure a minor symptom instead of the cause. > The logo license is ambiguous. That might be true, but it's ambiguity doesn't change it's free or non-freeness. > |1. This logo may only be used if: I'm not discussing the legality of your distribution of the official logo, merely the fact that the offical logo is not free. > If you are really interested in being useful, get this fixed before > the sarge release or get the official logo yanked altogether (unless > there is a reason a non-free logo can be used on webpages and not > packages.) The non-free logo can be used anywhere that its license allows. However, it cannot be included in packages that are in main, as it is not DSFG free. Don Armstrong -- A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. -- Bill Vaughan http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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