On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 13:36 -0400, Max Spevack wrote: > Howdy folks, > > The Fedora board needs help with a policy decision. > > As Fedora evolves, we'll be seeing more and more custom distributions that > are spun from the Fedora Universe of packages. Kadischi-based Live CDs > are a good example. We'd like to be able to allow these distributions to > use the Fedora name -- and we've got tentative buy-in from legal to do it > -- so long as the distros are built entirely from Fedora (Core+Extras) > packages. > > So. How should the Fedora brand be used in such cases? > > Let's say, for example, that Rex Dieter builds a minimal Fedora distro > that has KDE and no GNOME -- and he wants to call it "KDExcellent". He > also wants people to know that it's derived from official Fedora packages. > Should we let him call it: > > + Fedora KDExcellent? > + KDExcellent, based on Fedora? > + KDExcellent, a Fedora distribution? > > Whatever policy we come up with now, we'll be stuck with for quite a > while -- so we could use some help. > > Thanks in advance for your ideas. A related thing to drive forward is to make it trivially easy for others to rebrand Fedora when they are creating derivatives. Things that need to be changed - http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Branding Derived distributions http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DerivedDistributions Rahul -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
