“Lacking permission from the Debian project to call itself
Debian anything, the Debian Common Core Alliance has agreed to
change its name to the recursive DCC Alliance, but, according to
Debian, has so far refused to remove Debian’s logo from its own
logo or issue any formal press release about the change or why it
took place.“Progeny, Linspire, Xandros, and at least six other Debian-based
distribution companies announced last August at Linuxworld that
they planned to create a common set of packages and software at the
core of their distributions. They’re still saying they’re going to
make a Debian Core, but the Debian Project says it doesn’t have
anything to do with the legally trademarked Debian
distribution…”
“NewsForge: You stated in your blog that you
would like to see the DCC Alliance included as an official Debian
sub-project. What moves are you and the DCC Alliance making toward
this end?“Murdock: We’re trying to be additive. Like any
members of any community, we see more that could be done in areas
that are of interest to us, and we’re stepping up to do the work.
We explicitly *don’t* want to create yet another Debian derivative.
Given that, it makes sense to do as much as we can within the
context of the existing project…”
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