On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:35:50PM -0600, Andrew G . Feinberg wrote: > Why in the world do we need to license something as trivial as a > _logo_?
Because if we don't, nobody has the right to make copies of it and display it publically. It's the same reason as with software. > as a normal person that I dislike excessive legalese. If you really were a normal person, why are you a Debian developer? The proverbial normal people /hate/ (or at best tolerate) computers. (My point being that there is not one normal person on the face of Earth. Everyone have their quirks.) And a license by itself is not excessive legalese. Most free software licenses I've read are not legalese at all, and those that are (GNU (L)GPL and MPL come first to mind) are quite readable to a logically oriented mind with some patience. > Larry Ewing and Tux. You don't see him writing a license, do you? The picture of Tux is licensed freely for any use as long as Larry Ewing is mentioned. Don't know about modification, though. Antti-Juhani -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% EMACS, n.: Emacs May Allow Customised Screwups (unknown origin)