Hi
and since Red Hat is "releasing"/"has released" Fedora on its own, why not have all these things within Fedora. No more trademarks/patents other difficulties to get what users want. What is holding Fedora Back now?
Fedora foundation is governed by the same laws as Red Hat itself. So any potential patent restrictions still apply . The design of the project isnt changing. Fedora is going to remain completely open source and free of patent encumbered software. The goals and status of the foundation is available at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundation