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

[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> Looky here!  Someone's doing something inventive with Fedora!
> 
> http://www.linux-respin.org
> 
> Anybody know who's behind this effort?
> 
> --g
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 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.  :)
> 
> --g
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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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This is NOT related to the Fedora Unity project other than the 
plagiarism of parts of our site and press releases.

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