Hello, This is a pretty confusing decision to take. Since last week in the Fedora Live-CDs, there were talks and more confusion about it. see https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2006-April/msg00110.html and related talks about it. They are highly useful if (as Max said) we are choosing the idea of having two marks Chitlesh GOORAH On 4/20/06, Max Spevack <mspevack@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > --Max > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
