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Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo



On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:02:59AM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 06:30:20AM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> > > Simon Law:
> > >
> > > > 	That's because all these people are using it acceptable.  But
> > > > that doesn't mean that our logo is _free software_.  For reference,
> > > > please read the debian-legal thread I linked to.
> > >
> > > To me the argument falls flat here before it even starts: the logotype
> > > isn't software, and can't be treated as such, even less than
> > > documentation can be treated as software (which also is quite an absurd
> > > notion).
> >
> > If it is absurd to treat logos and documentation as software, then it
> > is absurd to include them in Debian.
> >
> 
> And you can take it one step further and say it is absurd for an
> organization dedicated to free software to have a logo (in the corporate
> sense) at all.

I don't see how that follows, unless you fail to distinguish between
Debian-the-project and Debian-the-distribution.

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