You can make a fork of Debian anytime you want. But you’re going to get in legal trouble if you call it “Debian II” and use a similar logo. That’s trademark protected, and the Debian devs aren’t going to be happy with some rando using their name and logo in a way that might confuse people.
No they won’t be upset because the Debian devs aren’t drooling, knuckle-dragging idiots. This is obviously parody and not at all harmful to their work.
The code is FOSS, the logo and branding are not.
You can make a fork of Debian anytime you want. But you’re going to get in legal trouble if you call it “Debian II” and use a similar logo. That’s trademark protected, and the Debian devs aren’t going to be happy with some rando using their name and logo in a way that might confuse people.
Which is why you don’t make Debian II. You make Lesbian using a rainbow coloured Aldi imitation style logo of Debian.
No they won’t be upset because the Debian devs aren’t drooling, knuckle-dragging idiots. This is obviously parody and not at all harmful to their work.