On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:39:34PM -0400, Etienne Gagnon wrote:
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> >>>This prompts an interesting question: Does the Official Debian logo
> >>>meet the DFSG test?
> >>
> >>No, but I'm pretty sure that we don't include the official logo in the
> >>Debian distribution.
> >
> >True, but the swirl logo fails the DFSG as well, as you can only use it
> >to refer to the project, and it doesn't allow explicitly other uses.
>
> My "gdm" logon screen has the swirl, as did my default gnome background
> when I installed it (very long ago). I did not use any package not
> in main to do so, therefore I think there are swirls sitting around in main.
>
> Will somebody fill a bug about it? (I do not have time to investigate
> and find the exact package containing the logo).
Note the (potentially important) point that there are *two* logos, with
different meanings, and with difference licenses.
The official logo should *not* be in the distribution proper, as it
cannot have a Free license and still serve it's purpose, most likely.
Any appearance of it is a fairly serious bug, at the moment.
The unofficial logo (which I see reproduced in many places; linuxlogo,
for example) is a matter of more debate (as to whether it's license is,
or should be, Free). Frankly, I think we need at least one logo that does
have a Free license, simply so that we CAN have a logo that's safe to ship
in main. Whether the current one meets that, or should be changed to meet
it, or some other option fixes it, I think it's something we will need to
resolve.
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Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> ,''`.
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