Eric Dorland wrote:
Copyrights and trademarks are different things.
Yes. They are but in this case they are closely interlinked. The problem with the
Firefox logo is that it has a non-DFSG-free copyright license, not necessarily the trademark license. No one has explained to me adequately why you can't have a free copyright license but a more restrictive trademark one.
This is a thorny issue we have been discussing for a while in Fedora too. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-August/msg00040.html. There doesnt seem to be any easy answers around this. Putting the logo under a Free software license would mean other people can create derivatives of Fedora, add whatever junk they want and use the Fedora logo in that derivative distribution. We want to avoid that. They are free to do derivatives of course but we dont want them to use the Fedora trademark name and brand.
The Debian branding being non-free is considered a bug and proposals are being put forward to fix it, and make us stop looking slightly hypocritical.
I wonder how Debian is planning to avoid the above problem. Rahul -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
