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Re: Bug#265352: grub: Debian splash images for Grub



Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh.trip@verizon.net> writes:
>>>The trademark rights are entirely separate, and there's no reason for
>>>Debian to license them in any way other than "Free for use if there's
>>>no confusion with Debian, either because they refer to Debian or
>>>because they're in a domain where Debian does no business."
>>
>>If you believe that to be the case, then I assume you would argue that
>>we should not include any of the Debian logos within the Debian main
>>distribution.  That would be unfortunate.  Or are you arguing that such
>>a restriction would be DFSG-free?  It seems to blatantly fail DFSG6.
> 
> It doesn't fail DFSG 6 because it is explicitly protected by DFSG 4:
> the logo is a name.

I strongly disagree with that, as I do with anything other than a set of
words being called a name.

- Josh Triplett

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