Wrong usage of the name "Fedora India"

[Kushal Das]

Hi all,

In planet.fedoraproject.org you can find one blog entry as "Fedora
India".  From the blog I can find his (may be he is in this list) name
is Kulbir Saini. That site http://fedora.co.in is also using Fedora
Logo. This may give false impression to the world that those are the
words from Fedora India team. Also the site contains Google ads.
Again in the site, there is a declaimer

"Copyright (c) 2008 Kulbir Saini. I am not related to Red Hat or
Fedora Project. The content on this site is my own views. "

I think we should not allow someone to use the name and logo like this.


Kushal
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[Debarshi Ray]

>  "Copyright (c) 2008 Kulbir Saini. I am not related to Red Hat
> or
>  Fedora Project. The content on this site is my own views. " 
If he is not related to the Fedora Project then how did he find a
place on the Planet? He _is_ related and therefore I think he is
lying.

Regards,
Debarshi

[sankarshan]

Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > "Copyright (c) 2008 Kulbir Saini. I am not related to Red
> Hat or
> > Fedora Project. The content on this site is my own views. "
>  
>  If he is not related to the Fedora Project then how did he find a
>  place on the Planet? He _is_ related and therefore I think he is
>  lying. 
This is being harsh. One, we don't know whether Kulbir is on the list 
(hence the cc:) and two, it might be constructive to provide an 
alternative acceptable messaging rather than an accusation.





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[Kushal Das]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:06 PM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)"
<foss.mailinglists(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  This is being harsh. One, we don't know whether Kulbir is on the
> list (hence
>  the cc:) and two, it might be constructive to provide an alternative
>  acceptable messaging rather than an accusation. 
So, if he changes his blog name to
something else and that declaimer ,
things will look better. Still no idea about the legal side of the url
and logo.

Kushal
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[Debarshi Ray]

> > If he is not related to the Fedora Project then how did he find
> a
> > place on the Planet? He _is_ related and therefore I think he is
> > lying. 
>  This is being harsh.  and two, it might be constructive to provide an
> alternative
>  acceptable messaging rather than an accusation. 
Maybe I sounded too harsh. Sorry!

However that disclaimer sounds to me like someone trying to outsmart
others, especially when is a GSoCer [1] and getting paid as a result
of doing work for Fedora.

>  One, we don't know whether Kulbir is on the list (hence
>  the cc:) 
If he is using fedora.co.in and "Fedora India" and yet not part of
this list, then this is really funny.

Regards,
Debarshi

[1] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/fedora/appinfo.html?csaid=EDF75F0E2A5F0530

[satya komaragiri]

Hey all

Um.. sorry for poking my nose here.. but as Kulbir Saini is not on the
list ..I wanted to ask you if i should forward this thread to him so
that he may do the necessary .. or convey any suggestion that you
might have for him..I can contact him as he is a co-gsocer

Regards
Satya

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Debarshi Ray <debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >> If he is not related to the Fedora Project then how did he
> find a
> >> place on the Planet? He _is_ related and therefore I think he is
> >> lying.
>
> > This is being harsh.  and two, it might be constructive to provide an alternative
> > acceptable messaging rather than an accusation.
>
>  Maybe I sounded too harsh. Sorry!
>
>  However that disclaimer sounds to me like someone trying to outsmart
>  others, especially when is a GSoCer [1] and getting paid as a result
>  of doing work for Fedora.
>
> > One, we don't know whether Kulbir is on the list (hence
> > the cc:)
>
>  If he is using fedora.co.in and "Fedora India" and yet not part of
>  this list, then this is really funny.
>
>  Regards,
>  Debarshi
>
>  [1] http://code.google.com/soc/2008/fedora/appinfo.html?csaid=EDF75F0E2A5F0530
>
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[sankarshan]

satya komaragiri wrote:

>  Um.. sorry for poking my nose here.. but as Kulbir Saini is not on
> the
>  list ..I wanted to ask you if i should forward this thread to him so
>  that he may do the necessary .. or convey any suggestion that you
>  might have for him..I can contact him as he is a co-gsocer 
Thank you Satya :)

I had put Kulbir in the cc: of my response earlier, but it would nice if 
you could point him to this thread and get him to subscribe to this list 
as well.


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