On 12/01/2009 12:23 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote: > On 11/30/2009 01:51 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> 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? > > It doesn't matter. It does matter to me. Otherwise I wouldn't ask. More below: Those are their rules to use their trademark. You > don't have to like them, but you don't have to use their trademark to > use/modify/redistribute their software. I am not sure, take it or leave are the only choices we have. Debian has a explicit rule against getting special permissions not available for downstreams and the rest of the free software community at clause 8 in DFSG at http://www.debian.org/social_contract Mozilla Firefox is the only exception that I am aware of in Fedora and the question for the Fedora Board (among others) is whether they consider it acceptable or not. The impact is essentially that I cannot combine two components as it is in Fedora. If the Fedora Board considers such special exceptions permissible, can we atleast get them documented in some place so I know I have to be extra careful about them in a remix? I don't think I can read trademark guidelines for all of the components in Fedora to determine such matters. Rahul _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
