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Debian relicenses its logo
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 05:36:04PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > The actual relicensing shall be done by SPI (as copyright owner) and has > not happened yet. But it should happen during the next SPI board > meeting, scheduled for September 13th, 2012. The above has now happened. SPI resolution is at: http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2012/2012-09... Yesterday I've committed the change to the licensing information at: http://www.debian.org/logos/ the change is now live. > If you're working on Debian artworks or the like, feel free to start > using the official logo in them. Assuming that it will be DFSG-free RSN > is now a safe bet. You should just avoid claiming that it is *already* > free until my final announcement here (after September 13th). For the -desktop people, I've reviewed the content of the desktop-base package, and it seems that none of the new themes uses the "debian" label, so there should be no need to change them at all. But if you didn't use the "debian" label for licensing reason, you still have a to add it (to be verified with the package maintainer and release team for unblock reasons, though). The spacefun team does use a "debian" label, typeset in the non-official typeface, though. If you want to update it to use the official typeface, you do have a chance to do so now (under similar constraints than above). Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » (Log in to post comments)
Debian relicenses its logo Posted Oct 1, 2012 14:42 UTC (Mon) by juliank (subscriber, #45896) [Link]
So, the logo without the name (which was free already, licensed under the Expat license) in it is now less liberally licensed than previously? I don't really see the reason for this part of the change.
Debian relicenses its logo Posted Oct 1, 2012 16:39 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106) [Link]
I believe the relevant quite is "We've also been advised not to relicense the "with 'Debian'" logo under a so-called "liberal" license like the Expat license." -- I guess the CC-BY-SA license is considered sufficiently equivalent? I don't see that an MIT-style license is particularly appropriate for artwork, especially since it references "Software" specifically.
Debian relicenses its logo Posted Oct 1, 2012 16:04 UTC (Mon) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]
I'm reminded of the time All Things Considered did a retrospective on its own themesong. Either 2002 contained the slowest news day _ever_ or that was truly epic navel gazing.
This comes close.
Navel gazing Posted Oct 1, 2012 16:14 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] But then...you remember it ten years later, so it must have had some sort of impact. Perhaps, toward the end of 2022, you'll have a nostalgic moment and think about where you were the day Debian's logo relicensing was announced...
Debian relicenses its logo Posted Oct 1, 2012 20:43 UTC (Mon) by zack (subscriber, #7062) [Link]
> Note that the "official" logo remains restricted
Regarding the "bottle" logo at http://www.debian.org/logos/ , called "official use logo", it's so official that very few people use it, and not many more of them known it exists at all. It hasn't been affected by the license change, but discussions are ongoing to simply set it aside https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2012/10/msg00002.... and stop promoting it.
Debian relicenses its logo Posted Oct 3, 2012 10:58 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] Ugh... that was ugly. Even worse than the traditional purple spiral, which (spoken as a long-time fan) does not really grow on you.
Debian relicenses its logo Posted Oct 3, 2012 19:52 UTC (Wed) by admcd (guest, #5415) [Link]
When the Debian website itself does not use the "official use" logo, you do have to wonder whether it has much practical purpose.
Debian relicenses its logo Posted Oct 3, 2012 23:58 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
> Permission has been given to use the official logo on clothing
> (shirts, hats, etc) as long as they are made by a Debian > developer and not sold for profit.
Normally, you could just head over to CafePress and request a custom shirt from them. However, I believe this would count as being "sold for profit" since presumably CafePress would charge for this service. Also, there's the question of whether something is "made by a developer" if it's actually made by someone else-- in my opinion, no.
So the only truly official debian clothing is that created by hand by a developer-- perhaps with a magic marker or a bottle of ketchup.
P.S. I have never seen the "bottle" logo before, and I used to use debian as my main linux distribution.
Debian relicenses its logo Posted Oct 5, 2012 21:12 UTC (Fri) by xtifr (subscriber, #143) [Link]
Heck, I've got a bottle-logo t-shirt! I don't remember the details, as it was all many years ago, but I think it may have been a limited edition only made available to DDs.
Honestly, I still like the old quick-sketch "chicken" logo. How many people remember that one? :)
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