[Bug 269656] Re: AN IRRELEVANT LICENSE IS PRESENTED TO YOU FREE-OF-CHARGE ON STARTUP

[FrogEatFrog]

Ante Karamatić wrote:
> <rant mode>
>
> Yet again, Debian doesn't allow me to create a t-shirt with 'Debian
> Official' logo on it. On the other hand, Debian developers do have that right.
>
> </rant mode>

Note how silly a scenario you had to create in order to make your point.
According to Debian's own logo policy[1], use of their "Official Use"
logo is pretty strictly controlled, but their "Open Use" logo is under a
BSD-like license (no warranty, no endorsement implied).  Guess which one
is exclusively used in the actual Debian distribution?  That's right,
the Open Use logo.  Debian is nothing if not consistent (sometimes to
the extreme), and they do not put anything in their software that you
are not allowed to use under the same terms they themselves follow.  In
fact, I have not seen the Official Use logo used *anywhere* in many
years, making the Open Use logo the de facto logo of the Debian project,
so complaints about their trademark policy are misguided..

Back on topic, thanks to Mark and everybody from Mozilla to coming to as
reasonable a solution on this issue as you could. :)

[1] http://www.debian.org/logos/

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