Margaret Lum wrote:
Hi folks,
As we are in the process of open sourcing, there were some questions
that came up. In particular is the issue of branding.
It is my understanding from a few IRC conversations (#fedora-admin) that
no project may use the Fedora brand WITHOUT undergoing the review
process, or being subject to the restrictions (ie, building/running with
GCJ for java components) of Fedora's packaging guidelines. A
Fedora-branded package is one that will eventually be in the operating
system.
While I realize this may seem obvious, please clarify this mandate, so I
can propagate the information to the right channels in my team.
Given an understanding of your goals after our talk today... you don't
need to have it pass the package review process as a prerequisite for
calling it Fedora. The trademark guidelines were written mainly to
limit the activities of outsiders from misusing the Fedora trademark.
Consider the case of how Fedora Directory Server was named for the
nearest comparable situation. FDS was named such as a business decision
when it was revealed to the public under a FOSS license. It was many
months later when it became technically possible to package FDS into a
RPM suitable to pass review by Fedora's packaging guidelines.
For your certificate related software that is in the process of opening,
I would recommend treating that as an internal business decision too.
You will want to think about trademarks of the product, whether the
names should be different between the Enterprise and Fedora versions
like it is with FDS and RHDS. The names chosen can be used within the
preparations of the new instance of a community project website that we
discussed earlier today. Then it is only a matter of bringing the
business-side approval to get the blessing of the Fedora board, which
shouldn't be any problem because the new release will be FOSS.
Of course there are many more details here, but this is the basic idea.
Warren Togami
wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
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