Christoph, thanks for your insighful comments. I've incorporated them into the discussion the SWG is having today.
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 02:25:27PM +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
However I think we should not advocate remixes, at least not if they are questionable. I never understood why the board approved the Fedora Russia Remix and allowed it to use the Fedora trademark. It contains non-free software or codecs and thus violates our very basic foundations.
On this point, I think there is confusion.
The Board did not grant a trademark license for a Fedora Russia remix. Remixes are explicitly not granted trademark licenses.
The Board did grant a trademark license for the web site name, russianfedora.ru, as is our practice for community web sites.
The board did grant a trademark license for non-software goods (e.g. T-shirts), however, this does not appear to have been completed by Alexey or anyone else in the Russian Fedora organization.
Thanks, Matt