On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 09:11:21AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:02:01PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : > > My own proposal, that I submit to your consideration, is as follows: > > - DFSG applies to copyright license; trademark restrictions should not > > make a package DFSG non-free (philosophical part) > > - however, trademark restrictions that get in the way of "usual Debian > > procedures" should not be accepted in the Debian archive (practical > > part) > The DFSG stem from our Social Contract, where they are introduced as a > tool to determine if a work is free. We can decide that they apply to > copyright licenses only, and that would leave on our archive > administrators the burden of determining if a trademark license is free. No, it would not, because *Debian is not in the practice of licensing trademarks*. The controlling principle is that we are not trading on the names of the upstream works and as a result we have no need of a license - so it doesn't matter what kind of hare-brained restrictions upstreams include in their trademark licenses because we don't need a license. A trademark license is a license to use a *brand*, not a license on a work of software. -- 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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