On 11-06-17 at 11:08am, Neil Williams wrote: > Do we already consider ourselves (as Emdebian) to be bound by the > Debian Social Contract? > > http://www.debian.org/social_contract > > I suspect the answer is Yes. I can't see anything in the contract that > would affect what Emdebian is trying to achieve. > > It is probably worth, therefore, putting exactly this statement on the > www.emdebian.org website front page in the interests of clarity over > the trademark and name usage etc. I propose to do this in the next few > days. I think that is a good move in the right direction. When assured that Emdebian consider itself bound by Debian Social Contract, next step is to have I believe, however (without being an expert on licensing) that it does not affect the use of Debian trademark and name: Anyone can choose to obey Debian Social Contract, but Debian needs to approve of any external use. So when we (Emdebian) are certain that we match Debian to a sensible degree (i.e. by obeying Social Contract, and fair amounts of Policy), we should a) ask Debian for permission formally for the use of their name, and/or b) ask Debian to "make room for us" as a Debian-internal project. I write "make room for us", as I believe it requires changes to Debian Policy. Personally I find b) most ideal, but since I would expect that to take time and the process potentially stir big debates, I guess it still makes sense to do a) as an intermediary step. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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