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Re: trademark licenses and DFSG: a summary



On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 01:12 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 03:26:59PM +0000, Uoti Urpala a écrit :
> > 
> > If you want to allow doing all modifications permitted by the DFSG
> > (which includes obnoxious ones) without the effort of rebranding, then
> > you must remove all use of trademarks from Debian, including the
> > Debian trademark itself.
> 
> I support dropping our trademarks.  We have to show the way.  We have a strong
> tradition of idenfifying ourselves via trusted information networks that are
> under our control; mostly our keyring.  We can also make a step further and
> include links (possibly qrcoded) to specific subpages of www.debian.org in the

A brilliant way to ensure no-one ever visits them!

> printed material we distribute which would explain how to authentify the
> material.  This is much saner than guaranteeing authenticity through a social
> mechanism that intends to inhibit others from modifying our works.

Yes, let's solve this social problem by technical instead of social
means.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If at first you don't succeed, you're doing about average.

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