severity 829701 minor block 829701 by 760306 thanks On 07/08/2016 02:34 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2016, Faidon Liambotis wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 06, 2016 at 12:21:36PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >>> Let me quote: >>> You are authorized to use our trademarks subject to this Trademark >>> Policy, and only on the further >>> condition that you download images of the trademarks directly from our >>> [35]website. You are not >>> >>> Your packaging of Mediawiki does not do that. Users of your packaging >>> do not do that. That alone is grounds for unfreeness. >> >> Well, first of all, "freeness" and "free software" are terms that apply >> to copyright law and licenses, as is the DFSG for that matter. There is >> no such thing as a "free" or "non-free" trademark license — neither >> Debian nor the FL/OSS community at large have made any such definitions. > > Independent of that, shipping the file as-is violates their trademark > policy. > >> <snip> > >> I don't interpret that clause like you do, but I'd be happy regardless >> to raise this with Wikimedia's legal team.
Thorsten, I also do not interpret the clause as you do. Upstream currently believes they are okay to distribute (by virtue of distributing them), and I agree with that position. I have also contacted the Wikimedia Foundation legal team for further clarification on the matter. Barring a comment from them or the ftp-masters, I plan on keeping the files in the MediaWiki package. -- Kunal
