Re: None FLOSS license for a logo?
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.devel.legal |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Am 27.08.2024 11:58 schrieb Roberto A. Foglietta: > On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 at 11:34, Simon McVittie <[email protected]> wrote: >> If your goal is to prevent your project name or logo from being used >> in >> ways that would be misleading to users/consumers (for example "passing >> off" an extensively modified version of your software as being the >> original, so that the developer of the modified version can benefit >> from your good reputation), then trademarks are the legal tool that's >> designed for that, not copyright. A strategy used in some projects >> (for >> example Firefox, Python, and Debian itself) is to have a Free Software >> *copyright* license for the logo, combined with a *trademark* license >> that has restrictions. Debian allows this. > > Which is nothing else than a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 in practice, after all. This sounds to me that it is not clear if "CC BY-NC-ND 4.0" is allowed in Debian GNU/Linux or not. Am I right? I was posting on that list in expectation that there might be a clear statement or policy rule. From the Python group I experience that there are always rules for nearly every detail when it comes to packaging. Isn't there a list of accepted licences? Or is there an official Debian institution I can ask about it?