I think an exception should be made for Chromium too. Having a more secure browser would benefit the main repositories. On 10/7/10, Brandon Lozza <brandon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/6/10, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 16:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: >> >>> However, this here is Fedora, a project that once was aiming at >>> "Freedom" - As trivial as it is, restrictive trademark policies simply >>> do not fit into this philosophy. >> >> If we don't protect the Fedora trademark, anyone can produce anything >> and call it 'Fedora'. Including something which doesn't fit into our >> philosophy of freedom at all. >> >> 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? >> -- >> Adam Williamson >> Fedora QA Community Monkey >> IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org >> http://www.happyassassin.net >> >> -- >> devel mailing list >> devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >> > > What are you guys going to do if someone does it anyway in a country > where Redhat hasn't registered the Fedora trademark, or countries > where another country already owns the Fedora trademark. Do you think > spammers are going to host in the good old US of A? Bad argument. > > Strawman arguments make bad policy change decisions. > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
