[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#391935: Bug #391935: Re: The answer from Citrix & Xen.org

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 07 octobre 2008 à 19:58 +1100, Ben Finney a écrit :
> > As for the "modified or unmodified", I think we have already 
> > considered it acceptable to require a name change for significant 
> > modifications made by third-party distributors. For example, though 
> > I’m not sure, I think this is already the case for Apache.
> 
> I don't know whether you're saying Debian itself would be exempt from 
> such a requirement.
> 
> The Debian project's license to freely redistribute works, modified or 
> unmodified, must not be specific to Debian as per DFSG §8. The license 
> to do so must extend to all “third-party distributors” when they get 
> the work from Debian.

AIUI, the final trademark license will be something along the lines of
"you can keep the name as long as the packages pass our compatibility
test". This is certainly not something specific to Debian. Yes, this
means we need to change the name if incompatible modifications are made,
but this does not break the DFSG since we are still free to change the
name for more important modifications.

Currently we are in a more blurry situation, since the compatibility
test has not been written yet.

Cheers,
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