Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo
Eric Sharkey <sharkey@netrics.com> writes:
> However, if you look at the logo as a component of Debian as a
> whole, and consider derived works of the logo to be derived works of
> Debian, and invoke the exception of clause 4 to allow Debian to
> require derived works to carry a diffent name (and by extension,
> logo), then it fits even the letter of the DFSG.
You may be interested in the discussion of the LPPL a while back on
debian-legal[1]. There it was decided that "name" should be
interpreted very narrowly and not refer to (for example) filenames.
[1] It starts here, and is quite long. The issue comes up fairly
quickly, however.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200207/msg00007.html
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