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Debian logo DFSG-freeness



Alfie's post reminds me that I need clarification on some point: the
fact that the Debian logo, which is shipped within many of our packages,
is not DFSG-free.
It was already raised:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/debian-legal-200111/msg00041.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200209/msg00192.html
but I don't see any statement on how this should be dealt with.

Is the current status quo to consider it as DFSG-free? Or to consider it
doesn't need to? If someone forks Debian and lets the logos in, he would
be violating the license because of e.g. the backgrounds.

It would be more clever to dual-license it under either the current
license or another license; an old-style BSD license with advertising
clause or a simple copyleft license come up as reasonable choices.

Regards,
-- 
 .''`.           Josselin Mouette        /\./\
: :' :           josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org
`. `'                        joss@debian.org
  `-  Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom

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