Hi Marketing folks, Peter Robinson, a Fedora contributor in the Mini SIG, has worked previously on the Moblin based Fedora spin, and has been working on a spin that includes MeeGo software. He has been talking to some of the folks involved in MeeGo about their compliance testing, which is a requirement for us to use the MeeGo marks.[1][2] Unfortunately what we've heard about the compliance requirements (which have yet to be published AFAIK) is that we'd be required to ship and use ConnMan, a nonstandard userspace network control stack that is not compatible with NetworkManager. This is not in Fedora for several reasons, one of the most obvious among them being it would be very confusing to maintain two entirely separate and incompatible network control stacks of this type. This doesn't mean we won't have this particular spin, but it will affect our use of the MeeGo name and trademark. The spin will probably need to be renamed in some way. We can say the spin contains some MeeGo software, which is fair use because it is a true statement. The MeeGo name would need to be marked with proper trademark attribution. Peter is considering options for renaming the spin accordingly, and swapping out any required artwork, which he believes is not a substantial amount of work. If anyone is interested in helping Peter, please get in touch with him via the Spins SIG. I've told you everything I know about the issue here -- I'm letting Marketing know about the issue so that the team can keep in touch with Peter to make sure F14 talking points and any other F14 material like the one-page, "shiny" release notes are kept in sync. I told Peter I would send on this message on his behalf, because he's quite busy at work but he wanted other involved teams to know what was going on. * * * [1] http://meego.com/about/trademark http://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/linux-foundation-trademark-usage-guidelines [2] Using the mark is also subject to other restrictions such as when juxtaposing it with another product name like Fedora. Fedora already has agreement with the Linux Foundation on a suitable name and permission to use it, but that's contingent on passing the compliance testing. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
