Adam Williamson <awilliam <at> redhat.com> writes: > It's really pretty simple: we can only define goals and values and > blahblah for 'the Fedora project' as long as we actually retain control > over 'the Fedora project' (that's we as in the Fedora community, not Red > Hat, BTW) and we can only do that if we control the name 'Fedora'. If > anyone can make anything and call it 'Fedora', how are people to know > what comes from the Fedora project and is backed by its values, and what > doesn't? Well, I suppose digital signatures would make this possible - but given that most people don't know how to use them, and the availability of an infinite number of free names to choose from, I think trademark restrictions are reasonable. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
