On 7/20/07, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/20/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Haven't we been trying to get to this for a /long/ time? A multi-tier > branding guideline, Fedora, Based on Fedora, Has a couple Fedora > packages in it > > or something to that effect. I'm sure we all want it... but i don't personally have a summary of all the ideas that have come before and been slapped down by legal.
Replying to myself. If I lived in a world where my will was undifferentiated from the rule of law I would decree that a new category of contribution be created named "Fedora Community Derived" with accompanied with the necessary textual and iconic marks. I would decree that these marks be essentially free for every sentient creature in the known multiverse to use in relation to legally valid collections of open/free/proprietary software, which make use of fedora tools or content in its creation. I would further mandate that a description of the intent of these marks be writ in the Fedora wiki. Such a description would indicate that the sole intent of the mark was to allow projects to self-identify that they users of open technology found inside the fedora space. Such a description of intent would also clearly state that Fedora as a project takes no responsibility for the contents of the distributions which use the Fedora Community Derived marks. But since I'm not the recognized ruler of the world...yet, such a decree would be a little premature. There's also the nagging problem that I'm not a trademark expert so I don't know if the creation of such a mark would fly. It would pretty much be absolutely unenforcible as a mark in any legal proceedings. But that's not really that important. What matters is that we'd have to be sure that the creation of a secondary mark like this would NOT endanger the official Fedora marks in any way what-so-ever. Of course if the lawyers preferred, we could probably just have a mark titled 'Community Derived' and leave Fedora out of the mark completely. What matters is that WE get to define at the outset the intent and scope of the mark. It doesn't have to have the word Fedora in it to mean what we need it to mean. We can mark official Fedora spins with this additional mark as yet another "community derived" distribution among many. So Fedora 8 would be marked as a "community derived" spin as well as being marked as Fedora. Just as Dell's livecd would be marked as a 'community derived" spin as well as using Dell's marks. And so on and so on. If we timed it correctly, we could have a dozen or so distributions start using the additional mark at the same time... adding weight to the purpose of it. -jef"i have a distinct urge to kick a puppy"spaleta _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
