On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 10:44:45PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Emanuel Berg writes: > > OKAY SO THE "DISTRIBUTION" DON'T HAVE A "LICENSE"? > > The distribution is a collection of pieces of software authored by a > wide variety of individuals, groups, and organizations. These authors > have published their works under terms which allow Debian or any one > else to redistribute them. It would not make a lot of sense for Debian > to attempt to apply some sort of license to the collection as a whole. > -- > John Hasler > j...@sugarbit.com > Elmwood, WI USA >
All that being said, other distributions have attmepted to put a licence on the whole distribution, not always consistently. Red Hat had a copyright on their artwork etc. and required derivatives to change their branding accordingly. Almalinux - a CentOS derivative - has a GPL2 licence over everything, Rocky Linux, which is essentially identical, is put out under a 3 clause BSD licence. Debian doesn't have an overall licence, as others have said, and the trademarks are liberally licensed. [I'm not sure anyone has used the bottle logo for a long time]. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater