Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 00:54:22 -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: > > Let's tackle this from a different angle. What were the ongoing > > concerns and aren't they solved yet? Who do I need to talk to in order > > to change the license? > > > The DPL. > > AFAIK when the logo license was changed, the lawyer advised to keep the > logo with debian under a restrictive license, and the dpl and spi board > went along with that.
That's my recollection. The minutes are at http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/meeting-minutes/2008/meeting-minutes-2008-03-19.txt/view but the ongoing concerns aren't stated there or in the logs at http://lists.spi-inc.org/pipermail/spi-general/2008-March/002567.html It refers to an earlier meeting whose minutes are at http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/meeting-minutes/2007/board-meeting-june-18th-2007.html which also doesn't state the concerns. It predates my log-posting effort (and I was physically at that meeting), but it was videoed at http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2007/debconf7/low/379_SPI_board_meeting.ogg - it's almost exactly 15 minutes in, but doesn't state the concerns very clearly. The explanation was "There was additional feedback from Greg, who's our lawyer, saying that there may be issues with relicensing the actual textual representation of the word debian because that may imply that we don't want to enforce the trademark of debian, so there's an additional little paragraph saying that the licence only applies to the graphical swirl and the graphical swirl and bottle. It doesn't apply to the textual representation." I'm not sure if adding a statement that we will enforce the trademark would avoid that implication, but then is the textual representation really still free from restrictions on field of endeavour? Anyway for "What were the ongoing concerns and aren't they solved yet?" the answer might be that only SPI board and DPL of that time know. Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
