On 04/17/2009 05:21 AM, Mike McGrath wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Robert Scheck wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Christoph Wickert wrote: >>> Let's face it: ATM the changes have caused confusion and discomfort in >>> the Fedora community. For example fedora.de has been taken offline >>> because of discrepancies between the trademark holder and the domain >>> owner. Robert as the domain owner is a well known and valuable >>> contributor of the project and all AFAIK all he did was redirecting to >>> fedoraproject.org. >> I'm really pissed, but still hope that Paul comes up with something soon. >> > > I'm not familiar with the text of the contract but I wanted to mention > something to those who might idly be following this thread to note that > Red Hat, as owners of the Fedora name, has to protect it everywhere it > knows about it. My understanding is if we don't protect it in one case, > we lose the protection everywhere. So even though the text of the > contract might be over zealous[1], the contract has to exist in some form. > As long as both sides stick to it, I'm sure a good middle ground will be > found. > > -Mike > > [1] I have no idea what the contract says Shouldn't it be made public? Rahul _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
