[Foundation-l] Why there will be no "Wikipedia" at Debian

Fri Oct 20 10:42:51 UTC 2006

They can always use the serif W like the favicon, no?

On 10/20/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hoi,
> Debian has problems with trademarked material ie the logos et al to be
> under a license that prevents them from being changed. As the Wikimedia
> Foundation has a license for its logos that is incompatible with the
> Debian way, it is not possible for it to host Wikimedia Foundation logos
> in the first place. We also do not allow anyone to use the names of the
> Wikimedia projects for their mirror without permission.. something I
> would think is also not in line with what Debian thinks is reasonable.
> Thanks,
>     GerardM
>
> Milos Rancic wrote:
> > Hm. But, Debian should not have a problem to use it in distribution...
> >
> > On 10/20/06, Jakob Voss <jakob.voss at nichtich.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Debian and Mozilla had a struggle about using Mozillas Trademarks in
> >> Debian if the software and logos are changed but the name is not.[1]
> >> This should also apply to Wikipedia if people want to distribute
> >> Wikipedia content or modified parts then they cannot just call it
> >> "Wikipedia" - I just wanted to clarify and give an example because many
> >> people think that the our name and logos are as free as the content.
> >>
> >> Greetings,
> >> Jakob
> >>
> >> [1] For instance http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3364701970.html
>
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