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[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 07:49:33PM +0200, Thomas Maass wrote:
>I have a question about my package "clipgrab".
>The license says, that the program is licensed
>under the GPLv3, but the name and the logo are
>not. I have contacted the author. He said, that
>he has the full copyright for the logo and the name.
>He allowed my explicitly, that I may package the
>program for Debian. He hopes, that this will be no
>problem with the Debian policy. He said, changing
>the logo and the name makes no sense.
>The included changelog file describes, that only
>the program is under GPLv3, but not the logo and
>name.
>Is this package correct now? How can / must I
>describe the allowance of the author?
>Maybe you could have a look at the package.
>I have uploaded it to mentors (see earlier messages).

"for Debian" is unacceptable: All that Debian redistribute (in the 
"main" archive) must be equally redistributed by others as well.

Sounds like you then need to strip logo, and rename the project - 
similar to Firefox redistributed in Debian as Iceweasel.

Please if you have more questions about this, then this is not the right 
list: Discuss such things at debian-legal at lists.debian.org.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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