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

[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

Max Spevack wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> 
>>
>> Looky here!  Someone's doing something inventive with Fedora!
>>
>> http://www.linux-respin.org
>>
>> Anybody know who's behind this effort?
> 
> As we have learned from Thomas Chung, it's led by Rob Garth
> 
> http://fedoranews.org/cms/user/1148
> 
> Greg and I will take the point on this.  It's important to me that it's 
> handled in a friendly way, and we figure out if we can work with him, 
> etc. and not have him get any sort of legal email, etc.
> 
> Our response should be "cool, how can we integrate what this guy's doing 
> into Fedora and make sure everything is compliant" and approach him that 
> way.
> 
> I'm particularly curious to know if he tried to submit the patches that 
> he's providing back to us and got nowhere, or if he just never even 
> bothered.
> 
> --Max
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I am not sure that Rob Garth is behind this. I think Rob is much more 
literate than the author of the pages that are original content. I have 
emailed Rob several times and this does not look at all like his style.

There are OPL Violations for the derived work from the Fedora Unity 
Project that we will be looking at. Several pages of content are pretty 
much copied from the Fedora Unity Project sites and related Press 
Releases. http://www.linux-respin.org/newsdefault.html was derived from 
our press release for the re-spins, 
http://www.linux-respin.org/about.html was derived from our mission 
statement written the night we started the Unity Project. Pretty 
frustrating.

On http://www.linux-respin.org/order.html they claim to be part of the 
"Fedora Free Media Program", is this true?

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