Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:30:55PM -0700, Paul C. Bryan wrote: > >>Are there any other examples of restrictions placed on open-source licenses >>that Debian has had to deal with in the past? When a package is resricted >>by trademark usage, does Debian have a policy to effectively deal with it? > > There's no difference between trademark law and anything else, and > nothing special about copyright law. We are interested in what you can > do with the work, for *whatever* legal reasons. It is significant that > the DFSG does not talk about copyrights. Agreed entirely; unfortunately, this logic does not seem to be applied in the case of the discussions of the license for the Debian logo. See the "Free Debian logos?" thread. - Josh Triplett
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