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Debian relicenses its logo

Debian relicenses its logo

Posted Oct 3, 2012 23:58 UTC (Wed) by cmccabe (guest, #60281)
Parent article: Debian relicenses its logo

> 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.


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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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