Re: Yet another website? (Re: [Ambassadors] belux ambassadors meeting log 15th April 2009)

[Paul W. Frields]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 05:37:13AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  On 04/17/2009 05:21 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
>  > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Robert Scheck wrote:
>  > 
>  >> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>  >>> Let's face it: ATM the changes have caused confusion and discomfort in
>  >>> the Fedora community. For example fedora.de has been taken offline
>  >>> because of discrepancies between the trademark holder and the domain
>  >>> owner. Robert as the domain owner is a well known and valuable
>  >>> contributor of the project and all AFAIK all he did was redirecting to
>  >>> fedoraproject.org.
>  >> I'm really pissed, but still hope that Paul comes up with something soon.
>  >>
>  > 
>  > I'm not familiar with the text of the contract but I wanted to mention
>  > something to those who might idly be following this thread to note that
>  > Red Hat, as owners of the Fedora name, has to protect it everywhere it
>  > knows about it.  My understanding is if we don't protect it in one case,
>  > we lose the protection everywhere.  So even though the text of the
>  > contract might be over zealous[1], the contract has to exist in some form.
>  > As long as both sides stick to it, I'm sure a good middle ground will be
>  > found.
>  > 
>  > 	-Mike
>  > 
>  > [1] I have no idea what the contract says
>  
>  Shouldn't it be made public? 
Refer to:
  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_license_agreement

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