On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:05:44PM +0100, Arand Nash wrote: > I'm shallowly involved with a game project which I hope someday > might make it into Debian. > Currently they use a rather non-free trademark/logo license. > I read an interesting suggestion in the archives here[1] which I > figured might be worth proposing as an alternative to the main > developers. > My adapted version would read something like:[2] > Is this still a suggestion for a trademark license which you would > still consider reasonably "OK" and fit for DFSG? > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/04/msg00122.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/04/msg00082.html seems to be the better reference for this. In general, Debian does not consider *any* trademark license to be non-free, including the default state under the law of not granting any trademark license at all. The only problem arises when trademark-like restrictions are entangled with the copyright license of the work. As for this particular license, note that debian-legal does not give legal advice; the proposed license looks ok to me, but I'm not a lawyer and that license has never been tested in court TTBOMK so I have nothing to point to saying that it's good. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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