Hold it, hold it, hold it.
Responses inline.
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Jane Dogalt wrote:
Chitlesh,
Thank you for your answers here. Unfortunately, I think you have
confirmed what I have suspected all along, but which I thought needed to
be spelled out. I.e.
***
There is a very limited subset of customizations a kadischi user may
make to their output, and still be 'legally' allowed to redistribute
their output.
Examples include- Including forbidden items, like nvidia drivers, mp3
support, etc. Doing things that are "hateful or stupid" in redhat or
fedora's subjective opinion.
Wrong. You can include anything you like, and redistribute anything you
like. The *only* restriction is whether or not you can use the Fedora
name on that redistribution.
The policy we're aiming for: if it's all Fedora stuff, you can use the
Fedora name. If it isn't, you can't. Period.
And I suspect from a 'legal' point of view, basically
anything that goes
any distance beyond changing the package selection from purely within
the core and extras repository. Because the instant you do anything
complicated like adding your own package that hasn't vetted the
core/extras quality control inclusion process, you are releasing a piece
of software whose quality will reflect on the fedora name, due to
implicit association. Certainly if (a) default fedora boot/background
logos/images/trademarks are left in place. And even to a lesser extent,
if the fedora-logos and anaconda images packages are left in place (am I
missing anything?). ***
We're not the least bit worried about implicit association. Not at all.
It's free software. The only thing we're worried about is *explicit*
association. That's why we protect the marks themselves so rigorously.
I am harping on this, because I think the issue confirms my need (and
I
think it would vastly benefit the kadischi user community as well) for a
simple post install script which optionally makes the resulting
distribution "clean of any implied association or sponsorship by redhat
or fedora".
Agreed. Make it happen.
I'm hoping such a script isn't too terribly more complicated
than rpm -e'ing
fedora-logos and anaconda-images. A while back I saw all the .svg things in
there, and was worried that it would be hard to replace those with 'dummy'
items , but I tried out inkscape last night, and was truly amazed at how cool
that tool is.
Yep. Should be pretty simple.
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