On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 17:42, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:12:48PM -0500, Paul Frields wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Mostafa Daneshvar >> <mostafa.daneshvar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Dear Board; >> > We, as Iranian community, want your permission to use >> > "fedoraproject.ir".One of our members registered it without considering >> > related regulations mentioned in >> > "http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/";. >> > within these few months this community attracted a lot of users,nearly >> > 510 registered. According to logs our website approximately has 5000 >> > pages view each day. Our forum has 5500 posts (up to now). >> > Considering our efforts within this time, we need your license to >> > continue our efforts. We need to grant us to use Fedora logo in our >> > website. >> > >> > We should be thankful for your immediate response >> >> Thank you for you email -- we're looking into this now, and will get >> back to you as soon as we can. > > > As you may know, US federal law currently places sweeping restrictions > on US citizens' and corporations' ability to transact with certain > people, organizations, and nations. The list of embargoed nations > includes Cuba, Iran, Libya, and North Korea, among others. > > The "Fedora" trademarks are regsitered worldwide to Red Hat, Inc., > which administers them on behalf of the Fedora community. Because Red > Hat is a US-based company, it must adhere to the restrictions imposed > by US law. Therefore, we cannot grant a trademark license for the use > of "Fedora" in your domain name, nor for use of the Fedora logo or > other trademarks. > > I noted from your email that one of your community members registered > the "fedoraproject.ir" domain. I'll send you a further email to > discuss this issue. > > I sincerely regret not being able to accommodate your request. > This is very disturbing to me if it's true. We have here a community of people that are being restricted from participating in the global Fedora community because of arbitrary US restrictions. I really hope that we can find a way to circumvent (yes) these restrictions. Will Red Hat try to enforce the trademarks in this case? Will it use it's legal powers to try and shutdown fedoraproject.ir? I would like to get a public clarification regarding this issue and an explanation how two of the four F's, "Freedom" and "Friends" are compatible with this policy. Thanks, Lars -- Lars Delhage RHC{E,X,A,SS} CL{P,E}{9,10} CNI LPIC-2.tel: +46 8 458 78 10 Nohup AB, Stortorget 1, 111 29 Stockholm mob: +46 70 781 60 69 GPG ID: 569492FE url :http://www.nohup.se _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
