On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 05:37:13AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > 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? Refer to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_license_agreement -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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