On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:14:30PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 19.05.2009, 12:08 -0400 schrieb Paul W. Frields: > > FUD -- if it was intentional and designed to hurt the Fedora Project > > -- would fall under the trademark guidelines' non-disparagement > > clause, I believe. > > Where is this non-disagreement clause? I can't find anything at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines > Following this discussion I was under the impression that paragraph > 5.1 "Noncommercial and community web sites" was all that a site at > fc.org would have to follow. Did I oversee something? https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines#Usage_That_Does_Not_Require_Permission That's the set of guidelines that apply to all trademark usage that does not require prior permission, such as displaying the logo on a community site. Quoting in part: ''' In all cases, use is permitted only provided that: [...snip...] * the use is not disparaging to Red Hat, the Fedora Project or their products ''' > > What other sorts of problems do you envision would > > arise about which we should be concerned? > > Substantial disagreements. What if a community and the board can't find > consensus? Again, what kind of substantial disagreement do you imagine that wouldn't fall under the trademark guidelines? I'm sorry if I sound like I'm being difficult, I don't mean to be. Maybe my imagination is limited. > Or using flags for example, because this topic has just been raised. > Would the Taiwanese community be allowed to use their country's flag? I think the topic to which you're referring is about carrying national flags in the distribution, not as part of the content of a community controlled web site. I don't see an issue here. -- 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 _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
