Re: [free-software-melb] Debian social contract and software freedom

2013-07-21 Thread Brian May
On 21 July 2013 15:17, Glenn McIntosh neonsig...@memepress.org wrote: The issue in the Debian branding of Firefox and Thunderbird was not fundamentally the trademark. It was the use of a non-DFSG licence on the logo, which Debian could not use. Mozilla decided that if the logo was not used,

Re: [free-software-melb] Debian social contract and software freedom

2013-07-20 Thread Glenn McIntosh
On 21/07/13 13:02, Ben Finney wrote: But those either ignore or punt the issue to trademark. The question still remains: what restrictions on the freedom of any recipient are acceptable in exchange for preventing the societal harms trademark law is designed to address? I'm not convinced that