trademarks [was: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs]

[Brandon Lozza]

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 at pwnage.ca> wrote:
> On 10/6/10, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> 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?
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>
> 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.
>