Abuse of Fedora trademark

[Hans de Goede]

Hi All,

I was reading todays lwn and found this article:
http://lwn.net/Articles/242830/

About this piece of software:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=62829

Which is a utility to ease the install of certain software on Fedora. As you 
all know I've suggested the inclusion of such a utility into Fedora, and thus I 
have nothing against the idea in general, nor to call something like this 
easyfedora, as its called. But this software is released under a proprietary 
license (according to the webpage). To me the use of the Fedora Trademark in 
combination with a proprietary license is not acceptable and a clear violation 
of the Fedora trademark policies. Can those who have the power please kindly 
request this person to cease and desist.

Thanks & Regards,

Hans

[Oliver Falk]

On 07/26/2007 02:52 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>  I was reading todays lwn and found this article:
>  http://lwn.net/Articles/242830/
>  
>  About this piece of software:
>  http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=62829
>  
>  Which is a utility to ease the install of certain software on Fedora. As
>  you all know I've suggested the inclusion of such a utility into Fedora,
>  and thus I have nothing against the idea in general, nor to call
>  something like this easyfedora, as its called. But this software is
>  released under a proprietary license (according to the webpage). To me
>  the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a proprietary
>  license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the Fedora trademark
>  policies. Can those who have the power please kindly request this person
>  to cease and desist. 
Copy that!

-of

[drago01]

Hans de Goede wrote:
>  To me the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a 
>  proprietary license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the 
>  Fedora trademark policies.
>  
+1

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2007/7/26, dragoran <drago01(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  Hans de Goede wrote:
>  > To me the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a
>  > proprietary license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the
>  > Fedora trademark policies.
>  >
>  +1
>
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>  
Hi
This person was adviced in this thead (french)
http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=180056

Quick sum-up, he was asked to release the code, anyway i don't think.
This is the right way of doing (it is better to script - and some
scripts exist with the same purpose).

For those interested in it, and in my view, the mandatory thing will
be to advices end-users and beginners and in each case, why this is
not merged into Fedora...
Not only to tick some boxes to have thing installed without to
understand anythings and how to work with alternatives...

Nicolas (kwizart)



Ps: See works that have already done on the subject :
http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Fedora_Helper.html
http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_frog

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:00:20 +0200
"KH KH" <kwizart(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  This person was adviced in this thead (french)
>  http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=180056
>  
>  Quick sum-up, he was asked to release the code, anyway i don't think.
>  This is the right way of doing (it is better to script - and some
>  scripts exist with the same purpose). 
Regardless if he opens the code, he doesn't have the right to use the
Fedora logo/Trademark.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora

[Kevin Kofler]

Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede <at> hhs.nl> writes:
>  easyfedora, as its called. But this software is released under a
> proprietary 
>  license (according to the webpage). To me the use of the Fedora Trademark in 
>  combination with a proprietary license is not acceptable and a clear
>  violation of the Fedora trademark policies. 
Not only that, he's also in violation of the Qt license (unless he has a 
commercial license, which I strongly doubt).

        Kevin Kofler

[Tim Lauridsen]

Hans de Goede wrote:
>  Hi All,
>
>  I was reading todays lwn and found this article:
>  http://lwn.net/Articles/242830/
>
>  About this piece of software:
>  http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=62829
>
>  Which is a utility to ease the install of certain software on Fedora. 
>  As you all know I've suggested the inclusion of such a utility into 
>  Fedora, and thus I have nothing against the idea in general, nor to 
>  call something like this easyfedora, as its called. But this software 
>  is released under a proprietary license (according to the webpage). To 
>  me the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a proprietary 
>  license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the Fedora 
>  trademark policies. Can those who have the power please kindly request 
>  this person to cease and desist.
>
>  Thanks & Regards,
>
>  Hans
>  
Hi Hans

Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines , maybe 
you should send the mail to *trademark*s(a)redhat.com 
<mailto:[e-mail]>

Best Regards,
Tim

[Alain PORTAL]

Le vendredi 27 juillet 2007, Tim Lauridsen a écrit :

>  Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines ,
> maybe
>  you should send the mail to *trademark*s(a)redhat.com
>  <mailto:[e-mail]> 
Before using a big hammer to swat a fly, perhaps it should be a nice idea to 
ask the developer to remove any direct reference (name, logo) to Fedora, 
don't you think?

Regards,
Alain
-- 
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http://manpagesfr.free.fr/

[drago01]

Alain PORTAL wrote:
>  Le vendredi 27 juillet 2007, Tim Lauridsen a écrit :
>
>    
> > Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines , maybe
> > you should send the mail to *trademark*s(a)redhat.com
> > <mailto:[e-mail]>
> >     
>
>  Before using a big hammer to swat a fly, perhaps it should be a nice idea to 
>  ask the developer to remove any direct reference (name, logo) to Fedora, 
>  don't you think?
>     
+1 else it might cause the same flamewars as the bcm stuff on the 
openbsd-list
but we also have too tell him not to violate the gpl (see kevin's post)

[Rahul Sundaram]

Alain PORTAL wrote:
>  Le vendredi 27 juillet 2007, Tim Lauridsen a écrit :
>  
> > Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines , maybe
> > you should send the mail to *trademark*s(a)redhat.com
> > <mailto:[e-mail]>
>  
>  Before using a big hammer to swat a fly, perhaps it should be a nice idea to 
>  ask the developer to remove any direct reference (name, logo) to Fedora, 
>  don't you think?
>   
Legal can handle this politely. They have already got this information.

Rahul