[fab] Licensing the Fedora logo

[Josh Boyer]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:32 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 13 July 2006 14:24, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > > If we can't even allow *free redistribution* of the logo, then how can we
> > > allow *free modification and redistribution*?  The answer is, WE CAN'T.  
> > > To repeat: NONE OF THE CURRENT OSS/CC LICENSES APPLY.  PERIOD.
> > 
> > Does this mean that Fedora is not redistributable?  Wasn't that one of the 
> > major goals of Fedora?
> 
> A fair question.
> 
> We do essentially grant a "license" of sorts for redistribution of the 
> logo, and they can be found in our trademark guidelines, here:
> 
> http://fedora.redhat.com/About/legal/trademarks/guidelines/page4.html
> 
> This license means that Fedora, *as we ship it*, is fully redistributable.  
> But if you change the content, you must lose the logo, because shipping 
> altered content violates the terms of usage of the logo.
> 
> This is a reasonable compromise, IMHO, but this *particular* flavor of
> compromise leaves no room to play with the logo.  At all.
> 
> There is another reasonable compromise:
> 
>   1. Come up with a "protected" logo that ships with FCn, and really 
> anywhere we need to emphasize the strong relationship between RH and 
> Fedora.

Aka, the RH logo, but with a blue hat instead (as an example).

>   2. Apply the aforementioned guidelines to the "protected" logo.
>   3. "Free" the current logo. 
>   4. Grant broader rights to the "free" logo via a CC license.

I like this.  How does it get pushed to the appropriate people?

josh