Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo
> > > In any case, the logo violates DFSG 8, so that trumps the
> > > affordance given by DFSG 4. If I extracted it from Debian and used it
> > > to refer to something else, I would be disallowed from modifying it.
> >
> > Again, that's not how I interpret it. The logo license says the logo has
> > to refer to Debian, not that it can't be distributed separately from
> > Debian. I don't see the violation here. DFSG 8 says that everyone
> > else has to play by the same rules that Debian does, and that seems ok
> > here.
>
> Well, that's a simplification. But Debian can modify the logo
> to refer to something else, say goldfish, while other people cannot. So
> the playing field isn't open, so it isn't DFSG-free.
You are completely misrepresenting the point of DFSG 8. For any work
created by a copyright holder, and licensed for use to a user, the
copyright holder is not bound by the license, but may do things which
would violate that licesnse, including relicensing the work under any
other terms he can think of.
DFSG 8 says that license terms can't say Debian can do something
that other licensee's cannot, but this cannot apply to works for
which Debian itself is the copyright holder.
If this were true, for any work licensed under the GPL for which the
copyright holder were Debian (as opposed to a particular developer),
then this software would be considered non-DFSG free by clause 8
since only Debian would have the right to re-license under a different
license, such as BSD.
This is absurd.
Eric
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