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Re: Logo trademark license vs. copyright license



On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:02:11PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: [...]
> > Further, it's up to *Debian* to decide what uses of the logo reflect badly
> > on it and consequently should be disallowed because we don't wish to be
> > associated with them.  Your above statement includes an implicit value
> > judgement about which sorts of activities Debian will or will not wish to be
> > associated with, which may not be at all representative of the views of the
> > project members at large.

> Two things wrong with that:

> Firstly, much of this thread seems to be taken up by people saying that the
> project can't disallow things which we don't think reflect badly on debian
> but other people generally do.  Why is this different?

Huh?  Do I understand right that you're asking me to justify others'
contributions to this thread?

> Secondly, if any debian developers think sweatshop-sewn shirts of cotton
> subsidised by one of the world's richest countries reflect well on the
> project,

The inverse of "reflects badly" is not "reflects well", it's "does not
reflect badly".

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/



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