[fab] Re: [Famsco-list] Fedora Core 5 Re-Spin Plus! (fwd)

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

Looky here!  Someone's doing something inventive with Fedora!

http://www.linux-respin.org

Anybody know who's behind this effort?

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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:25:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com>
To: famsco-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Famsco-list] Fedora Core 5 Re-Spin Plus!


And looky looky at this URL:

http://www.linux-respin.org/tmcomply.html

They've read the trademark guidelines, and presuming that their "plus" is 
provided as a clearly labeled post-install, they are within the 
guidelines.

A very interesting effort.  I wonder who's behind it?  Difficult to find 
any actual contact info on the site.  :)

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:

> 
> The key question here is the "plus".
> 
> What's the plus?  Is it software in the Fedora universe?
> 
> If it's not, they can't use the name.  If it is, they can(1).  It's as 
> simple as that.
> 
> --g
> 
> (1) OK, it *should* be as simple as that, and I think that since we've 
> given the Unity project the right to use the name on Fedora respins, it 
> should be fine.
> 
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> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Alex Maier wrote:
> 
> > Besides from plagiarizing most of our homepage's copy, and using the
> > logo without our permission, I don't see what else is wrong with this
> > page.
> > 
> > Offering an update subscription service and charging for it is quite
> > permissible under GPL, isn't it?
> > 
> > cheers,
> > a
> > 
> > On 7/17/06, Thomas Chung <tchung at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > Has anybody have any idea how many in violations with this site?
> > > http://www.linux-respin.org/
> > > One of FWN readers reported and I'm deeply concerned.
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Thomas Chung
> > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ThomasChung
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