Re: Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-31 Thread Gergely Nagy
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: In contrast with what we require for the software we distribute, we are forbidding to use some of our logos for profit. While there are some clear differences between software and carriers of visual identity, I feel that there is a strong mismatch

Re: Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:47:27AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: [...] I would like to know your position or vision on our trademarks and logos, and, if you indend to work on that question as a DPL, what would be the key points of your action. Stefano has already given an overview of the

Re: Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-14 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:47:27AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: In contrast with what we require for the software we distribute, we are forbidding to use some of our logos for profit. While there are some clear differences between software and carriers of visual identity, I feel that there

Debian's trademarks and logos, and their terms of use.

2012-03-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear Wouter, Gergely and Stefano, one of the conditions for a work to be considered free is to allow others to use it without making contribution back to the original authors (even if we whish everybody would do when they can). In the non-free section of our archive, we therefore have software