Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 19:19 -0500 schrieb Paul W. Frields: > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:22:07PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 16:14 -0500 schrieb Paul W. Frields: > > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:57:10PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote: > > > > Hello. > > > > > > > > Fedora contains various tools for appliance creation. AFAIK it is > > > > intended that Fedora shall be used as a base for various appliances ISVs > > > > or OEMs want to create. But there is there some legal-guide which > > > > summarizes the legal aspects of Fedora based appliances e.g. when I want > > > > to distribute a Fedora AOS with some proprietary software? (As some kind > > > > of media-center). > > > > > > I'm assuming you mean guidance on whether, and how, these types of > > > appliances can use the "Fedora" name and associated trademarks. You > > > can find our full trademark guidelines here: > > > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines > > > > > > The particular section on appliances and OS images is here: > > > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Virtual_images_or_appliances_with_unmodified_Fedora_software > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Virtual_images_or_appliances_with_combinations_of_Fedora_software_with_non-Fedora_or_modified_Fedora_software > > > > The usage of the "Fedora" tardemark is just one point. There are more > > questions (for me at least :) ), like: > > Will a appliance providers have to keep the sources of all distributed > > packages, even if they are official Fedora packages? > > Spot or someone else will correct me if I go wrong here, but because > the Fedora Project ships source pursuant to the requirements of the > GPLv2 section 3(a), downstream remixers cannot simply point to the > Fedora Project for source distribution (as in section 3(c)). This is > intentional and unlikely to change in the near future. Also, section > 3(c) as I understand it is not workable for commercial redistributors. Okay. Thansk to clarify this. > The best solution I can imagine is for downstream remixers to simply > prepare the matching source collection, and offer it at the same point > of distribution under GPL 3(a) as well. IANAL, TINLA, and so forth. But remixers could use the srpms, provided in the official Fedora spins, to build some custom "appliance"-spin? fabian _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
