On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 08:48:40PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > On Mon, October 8, 2012 16:52, Paul Tagliamonte wrote: > > Right now, the way I understand it is that you can, in a DFSG and legal > > way, create a document with the Debian logo & brand, and create a > > "certificate" that looks to be from Debian, and sell them as some sort > > of certification from Debian without recourse from the Debian project. > > This is possible whether the official use logo exists or not: right now > anyone can create a certificate with the open use logo, which is what > everyone and their dog recognises as "the Debian logo".
Sure, but the issue is it's legal with the open-use logo and not legal with the bottle logo, which means we have legal recourse when we use the nonfree logo. > > The current open use licence does not allow you to misrepresent yourself > as being Debian. The Cc license summary even mentions prominently that it > you may not use it to claim endorsement by Debian: > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ > > I find it therefore doubtful that keeping the bottle logo solves any real > world problem. > > > Cheers, > Thijs > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/1056171940d7b2e660df0eb308ff5bcf.squir...@aphrodite.kinkhorst.nl > -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paul...@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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