On Jan 29, 2008 6:52 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:58:22 -0500 (EST) > Max Spevack <mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > What else? Is the objective that I'm looking for clear? > > There should be a very compelling reason to call it "Fedora". Because > of our draconian trademark policy it becomes rather hard to rid the > distro of the term "Fedora", and once you apply the Fedora name to > something, they'll likely want to use the logo, and then we run into > logo issues, etc, etc... > > I'd really like to hear a strong compelling reason to apply the term > Fedora to a set of code, which by all rights we should be trying to get > used in other distributions. > Yeah respins and downstreams become a complete pain in the arse. The issue would be that if you came up with an alternative name to help keep things in check as in 'bowler-directory-server', 'bowler-images' does someone then say it need to be trademarked etc etc. Actually maybe for Fedora X we can have a set of 'official' alternative packages called bowler-X, so that respins would be able to use them without incurring the Wrath of K'lawyer. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
