On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 03:35:39AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 07/15/2009 03:11 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > Greetings. > > > > I'd like some clarification from the board if possible. > > I'll use an example of the Xfce spin here, but this would apply to any > > of the approved spins. > > > > - The Xfce Spin was approved by the board to use the Fedora trademark a > > while ago. So it can use fedora-logos and is an 'official' spin. > > > > - If I make a rawhide Xfce spin right now with current rawhide packages > > that seems to fall under: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Distributing_Fedora_software_2 > > > > Which says: > > > > "use of the Fedora Trademarks is approved by the Fedora Board." > > Since I brought this up to Kevin Fenzi, let me add a concerns I have here: > > Just in case, a rawhide snapshot of a spin is actually considered > pre-approved, What if someone takes Fedora KDE Spin kickstart file, adds > the updates repo or worse the rawhide repo and release it as Fedora KDE > Spin? Rawhide can be quite broken. I would think that adding the rawhide repo to a trademark-approved spin would qualify as a major change. > One more related use case: > > Does the test day images released by the QA team covered by the current > trademark guidelines. It doesn't make sense to me to worry about trademark approval for images that are only going to be in use for a very short time. If their survivability is a concern, I'll ask for QA to ensure they are removed regularly after their usefulness has expired. -- 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
