The controversy between Debian and Mozilla might be germane to this discussion. If I understand it right, the name Firefox and the logos are trademarked by Mozilla. Debian's strict interpretation of open licenses mean they ship their patched version of Firefox as IceWeasel. Or maybe Mozilla won't let them ship the (heavily) patched version and call it Firefox. Or both. Either way, it seems to be a mess, and attributable to the decision to trademark and "brand." I haven't been following this very closely, but here's a couple of (old) links. Maybe somebody else knows more about where this is right now.
Mark Shuttleworth's opinion about Ubuntu's relationship to both sides http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/79 and here's a link to a view from Mozilla that might be a reasonable introduction to the conflict, despite being from one side http://cbeard.typepad.com/mozilla/2006/10/mozilla_tradema.html On Feb 17, 2:30 am, Harald Schilly <harald.schi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 17, 3:07 am, Sirius <deuter...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > To be sincere, I really don't care much, nor know much, about the > > license, I just want to have credit ... > > Yes, I don't care much either but here my two cents: My personal > "definition" of logo is a unique graphic to represent the project. > Unique means, no other project/entity uses it. > On the other hand, the whole intention behind releasing something > under a license (no matter which one) is, to give others some usage > rights without asking and without questioning for what it is used. > Therefore, releasing the sage logo in a CC license means, that some > other entity can use it. [This has nothing to do with copyright, since > your work is always copyrighted!] > I know, that's probably controversial and discussing this only > consumes time that's better used for something else. My point of view > is to keep the copyright (as it is automatically and always) and > explicitly dedicate such works to the sage project. period. Just like > donated money can't be used for buying beer. > > H --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
