On 11/30/2009 09:15 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 11/29/2009 07:45 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Is this permission transferred to Fedora Remixes? If not, again this >> seems unparalleled that Fedora Project would get a privilege for itself >> that downstream distributions cannot avail of. IMO, this goes against >> the nature of Fedora and Fedora Board should consider whether this is >> acceptable. > > Rahul, this is no different from the handling of the Fedora trademark. > Remixers who wish to use the unmodified Firefox package can use > Mozilla's trademark. Those who want to make changes (to embed adblock or > any other package change), will need to talk to Mozilla to see if it is > acceptable or not. I don't really think its quite the same situation. I can't think of any other package that I can't combine with another package in Fedora without special permission from a third party. Besides Mozilla, can you cite a single instance where Fedora Project has special trademark agreements on modifications that is not inherited by downstreams? Rahul _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
