On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:51:57 +0000 Lewis Jardine wrote: > If this is the case, then Debian could make itself easy to rebrand by > ensuring that all uses of the Debian logo to brand the distribution > are in one location; distributing it is fine, so no-one would have to > worry about accidentally shipping one (as long as the copyright > license is Free).
This seems like a good suggestion, I would say.
As an example: there are many many images (especially desktop
wallpapers) out there that are derivative works of the Debian Open Use
Logo.
Some of them would be Free (at least copyright-wise) if the Open Use
Logo were itself Free: once the copyright license of the Open Use Logo
is DFSG-free, we could ship those ones in main.
They do not claim that the swirl is the logo of some other distro or of
some other computer-related product.
Nor do they claim that something else is Debian when it's not.
As a consequence, trademarks should not be a problem...
Oh my goodness, now I am again going towards the conclusion that
trademarks are orthogonal to DFSG-freeness... :-(
Please, someone help me! >:-(
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