On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 07:44:55 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 06:34:52PM +0200, Francesco Poli a écrit : > > > > In the meanwhile, what I was proposing was that the licensing of the > > Debian Open Use Logo should not create a deliberate incompatibility > > with either the GPLv2 or the GPLv3. > > Hi Francesco, Hi Charles, > > The Debian Open Use Logo without « Debian » is still distributed under a > persmissive license on www.debian.org/logos, so anybody who worries about > license incompatibilities can make a backup now, and redistribute it under its > permissive license later if it looks useful. This is certainly true, and I acknowledged that in my previous reply [1], where I mentioned the Wayback Machine of archive.org (for example the snapshot taken on June 2011, the 29th [2] should be usable as a backup for the Expat-licensed logo). [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/09/msg00056.html [2] http://web.archive.org/web/20110629034656/http://www.debian.org/logos/ What I was worrying about was that: (A) in the future, anyone who visits the official web site [3] (without searching further elsewhere) will get the the Open Use Logo "without Debian" under a much more restrictive license (B) the Open Use Logo "with Debian" (which has been non-free so far) will become DFSG-free, but GPLv2-incompatible [3] http://www.debian.org/logos/ I think that (A) looks like a regression and (B) is a poor licensing choice. > > Have a nice day, The same to you! Bye. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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