Bug#265352: grub: Debian splash images for Grub

[David Schleef]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:46:53PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:27:18PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > I can't see a problem there (it's much stricter for the "official use"
> > logo), but there are no restrictions upon use or derived works, so I
> > think it's OK.  (It's certainly used by many other Debian packages!)
> 
> IANAL, but AFAIK when a license doesn't explicitly allow something, it means
> it's not allowed.
> 
> I'm adding CC to debian-legal.  Can you people send your advice?

The Debian Open Use Logo License is generally considered to be
non-DFSG free.  However, it appears to be a widely held belief
that Debian should have _some_ logo that is DFSG-free, and that
the license of the open logo should be changed to make this so.
I think because of the latter, there has never been a logo purge
of main.  Perhaps an attempted logo purge would convince SPI to
act on this matter.

See this thread for additional commentary:

  http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/09/msg00840.html

It's somewhat amusing that debian-legal routinely convinces people
to change to DFSG-free licenses, but can't seem to affect its own
organization.



dave...