Jérôme Marant wrote:
Imagine that I take the latest stable debian distribution as it
is and that I decide to improve it with modifying boot floppies,
adding new install procedures and creating new tools (for instance
administration tools). Everything developed DFSG-compliant of course and all
developments offered to the debian project ...
My question is simple: can I spread It with calling it
Something Debian GNU/Linux, for instance Super Debian GNU/Linux
(stupid example but it shows the idea)
I beleive so.
What are the legal restrictions about it ? Are there possible compromizes ?
What am I and what am I not allowed to do with
the name debian ?
You are not allowed to call anything Official Debian unless it is the
exact ISO images we distribute with that name.
You are not allowed to abuse the word Debian in ways the debian project
dislikes -- as it is a trademark of the Debian project. That's open ended,
but it's unlikely the Debian project would object to any thing except things
that would be harful to the project in some way.
Other than that, you should be able to use Debian however you like. There
is no problem with people using Debian in the names of products based on
Debian (for example, see Essential Debian).
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