Hi,
I'm reposting this e-mail, slightly edited and with a much more clear
subject, highlighting the issue.
Hi,
Zotero is a referencing tool that helps the user collecting,
maintaining and generating citations from research papers and so on.
Since version 3.0, Zotero has also been available as a standalone
executable (previously a Firefox plugin) based on the XULRunner
runtime; and I'm thinking about packaging it for Fedora.
The code base is licensed under AGPLv3, however the program's name
'Zotero' is a registered trademark
(
http://www.zotero.org/support/terms/trademark)
I asked the developers
(
http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/23104/packaging-zotero-for-gnulinux-d...)
if it was OK to use that same name (even if the source package ends up
slightly changed - mostly the build system actually), but then here I
am asking the same question in order to get more feedback from the
Fedora packaging community:
What's the position of Fedora regarding using the same trademarked
program names (even if the source code is under an open source
license) ?
This case would look similar to the Firefox package and I'm interested
in understanding how this is handled in Fedora.
Thanks,
-Ilyes
P.S: I'm already a Fedora packager.