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This bug was fixed in the package ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu - 9

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ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (9) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Evan Dandrea ]
  * The version of Firefox shipped with Ubuntu 9.10 is 3.5, not 3.0
    (LP: #442832).
  * Add an Ubuntu One slide.
  * Freeze exception (LP: #447383).
  * Updated Ubuntu and Ubuntu One logo license (LP: #451263).
  * Updated translations from Launchpad (source package).

  [ Dylan McCall ]
  * Merged middle-tweaks branch. Freeze exception (LP: #445102)
  * New strings for firefox.html, fspot.html, rhythmbox-totem.html,
    evolution.html, empathy.html, openoffice.html, accessibility.html,
    installing-software.html.
  * Changed order of slideshow; multimedia stuff slide appears first,
    accessibility near the end, before Installing Software.
  * Breathe icons have been replaced with icons from the Humanity icon theme:
    accessibility.svg, evolution.svg, fspot.svg, help.svg, openoffice.svg
    (LP: #428169)
  * Breathe icon fspot.svg has been replaced with its counterpart from the
    fspot source package.
  * Removed banshee.svg from source tree and removed mention of nonexistent
    icons from debian/copyright.
  * Updated translation templates for new slides.

  [ Daniel Holbert ]
  * Made images in slideshow non-draggable to work around pywebkitgtk crash
    (LP: #448703).

 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@xxxxxxxxxx>   Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:50:19 +0100

** Changed in: ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (Ubuntu Karmic)
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Ubuntu logo is not redistributable
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Status in “ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “ubuntu-artwork” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “usplash-theme-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in “xsplash” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
Status in ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released
Status in ubuntu-artwork in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released
Status in usplash-theme-ubuntu in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released
Status in xsplash in Ubuntu Karmic: Fix Released

Bug description:
Binary package hint: ubuntu-artwork

Since karmic, the copyright file says:

-------------- 8< ----------------------

Unless otherwise indicated, artwork is available under the Creative Commons
Attribution Share-alike license v3.0 or any later version.  To view a copy of
this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ or send a
letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco,
California, 94105, USA.

See below for the full text.

The rights in the trademarks, logos, service marks of Canonical Ltd,
as well as the look and feel of Ubuntu, are not licensed under the
Creative Commons license and are subject to the Canonical Trademark
Policy at http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/TrademarkPolicy
-------------- 8< ----------------------

The second paragraph points out that the logo is not distributed under CC-BY-SA, but does not give any license for it.

The link to the TM policy does not help, because

 (1) The TM policy does not specify a distribution license (and shouldn't really)

 (2) If (1) was not the case, it is not included verbatim, so the conditions could be changed after a product release

 (3) even if interpreting the TM policy very liberally (and incompatibly with both legal and mathematical logic) and inferring that prohibiting commercial usage implies that non-commercial usage is allowed, this renders Ubuntu uninstallable in commercial environments.

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/ubuntustory/licensing makes some concessions that things like artwork and logos do not need to be free software. However, it does require that "these works do not restrict our ability to make Ubuntu available free of charge, and that Ubuntu remains re-distributable by you", which is clearly violated here.

In Jaunty and earlier, artwork and logos were distributed under CC-BY-SA.

These packages currently have above copyright text in Karmic:

human-theme
notify-osd-icons
notify-osd-icons
ubuntu-artwork
ubuntu-wallpapers
ubuntu-xsplash-artwork
usplash-theme-ubuntu

However, only ubuntu-artwork and usplash-theme-ubuntu actually contain logos and are affected by the second paragraph.