Bug#265352: grub: Debian splash images for Grub

[Josh Triplett]

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Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>>I think the open use logo itself should be DFSG-free, but it probably
>>should be accompanied by a trademark license. I'll contact SPI to see 
>>what needs to be done to change the license, and I've asked Matthew
>>Garrett to discuss the trademark issue with SPI's trademark lawyer and
>>others on spi-trademark.
>>
>>What would a good license for the logo be?
> 
> There are two options: separate copyright and trademark licenses and a "fused" 
> license.
> 
> OPTION 1
> Copyright license:
> Copyright 1999 Software in the Public Interest
> Permission is hereby granted to anyone to copy, modify, display or perform 
> publicly, and/or redistribute this logo, with or without modifications.  
> (This copyright license is not intended to grant a trademark license; see 
> below for trademark license.)
> 
> Trademark license: 
> This logo is a trademark/service mark of the Debian Project.
> Permission is hereby granted to anyone to use this logo or a modified version 
> to refer to the Debian project.  It does not indicate endorsement by the 
> project.  
> Modified versions which are sufficiently different so that they do not 
> consitute trademark use or infringment -- that is, those which are not likely 
> to cause confusion with Debian's logo in the minds of those seeing them -- 
> may be used for any purpose.  (This trademark license is not intended to 
> restrict or alter the grant of copyright license; see above for copyright 
> license.)
> 
> OPTION 2
> Fused license:
> Copyright 1999 Software in the Public Interest
> This logo is a trademark/service mark of the Debian Project.
> Permission is hereby granted to anyone to copy, modify, display or perform 
> publicly, and/or redistribute this logo, with or without modifications.  
> Permission is hereby granted to anyone to use this logo or a modified version 
> to refer to the Debian project.  It does not indicate endorsement by the 
> project.  Additionally, permission is hereby granted to anyone to use 
> modified versions which are sufficiently different so that they do not 
> consitute trademark use or infringment (that is, those which are not likely 
> to cause confusion with Debian's logo in the minds of those seeing them) for 
> any purpose.
> 
> ---
> It should be possible to polish these a little (particularly the "constitute 
> trademark use or infringement" line), but this is about right.

Both of these licenses seem clearly non-free to me, since they restrict
the uses of unmodified or "insufficiently different" versions.

- Josh Triplett


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