On Sep 1, 2015 7:02 PM, "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 11:38:32PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > I'm not on the council, but being involved with ARM stuff of similar
> > nature in the past I'd ask the following questions:
>
> Good, thanks. :)
>
> > 1) Are they properly handling all the legal/trademark bits as
> > expected, if they're not and we back them it could bite later?
>
> I think they're doing it right, yeah. Their remix is listed at:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/List_of_Fedora_remixes#CloudRouter
>
> and the representation as a Fedora Remix at
> <https://cloudrouter.org/getting-started/> looks in-line to me.
>
>
> > 2) what is the relationship, are they just consuming our work and
> > wanting to use the brand to their advantage?
>
> They're building on our work. As the trademark guidlines say, ". The
> Secondary Mark provides downstream distributors a means to indicate
> their work includes or is derived from Fedora content, and thereby
> drive more interest in the Fedora Project itself." -- I think that's
> pretty much exactly the situation here.
>
> One approach would certainly be to ask them to use the Fedora Remix
> mark and a statement like "CloudRouter is proud to be a Fedora Remix"
> or similar, rather than the main logo and the list-of-sponsors thing.
I like that suggestion.
josh
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