2) As a way to get funding and money. If a commercial company wants to
support an open source project by becoming sponsor and include their
logo in the software (for instance in an about menu or in the map of a
game). Their logo and name are obviously trademarked and copyrighted.
If I include this logo will my project be considered as dfsg friendly
? Considering the whole package except the logo and sponsors part are
open and free for modifications.
There is no way a company will "openly" allow their logo to be
modified. In fact even debian protect its own logo.
https://www.debian.org/trademark
Does that mean open source and free software project can't include
sponsor logo and company name ?
There's no problem in including the company name. Including the sponsor
logo would make the application slightly unfree.
Also note that some logos are so simple there's no copyright on them.
3) if a debian packager modify my software for any reason. Will they
warn me about modifications ? Will they change the name to avoid any
confusion between my original project and the "fork" made by debian ?
Will they remove sponsor logo for instance without warning us ?
The main reason for removing a logo would precisely be in order to allow
it into Debian. The name could be changed, although IMHO it's not a
reason strong enough for requiring that.
Regards
PS: I think you are looking at these things from the wrong perspective,.
but it's good you asked.
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