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

[Max Spevack]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Patrick W. Barnes wrote:

> The legal issues that my 5-minute review has found include:
>
> For the Fedora Project
> * Inclusion of third-party materials on installation media, with that media
> carrying the "Fedora" trademark.  A violation of the trademark guidelines.
> * Inclusion of content from our wiki on the website.  The content is covered
> by the OPL, which requires basic attribution for derivatives.  That
> attribution is missing, leaving the site in violation of the OPL.
> * No clear offer for source code is provided for any part of the software.
> Unmodified bits might be provided by the Fedora Project, but source for the
> modifications, some of which (like the installer modifications) must be GPL,
> is not provided or offered.  This is a violation of the GPL.
>
> For Fedora Unity:
> * Massive parts of the Fedora Unity site have been copied.  The Fedora Unity
> content is licensed under the OPL.  Again, no attribution is given.  This is
> a second count of OPL violations.
>
> I might find more on a longer review.  These are all things that must be
> corrected.  I'll look deeper when I have more time.

Yeah, this whole website is a giant mess of issues.  Not good.  Especially 
the GPL violation.

--Max