Yet another website? (Re: [Ambassadors] belux ambassadors meeting log 15th April 2009)

[Mike McGrath]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Robert Scheck wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > Let's face it: ATM the changes have caused confusion and discomfort in
> > the Fedora community. For example fedora.de has been taken offline
> > because of discrepancies between the trademark holder and the domain
> > owner. Robert as the domain owner is a well known and valuable
> > contributor of the project and all AFAIK all he did was redirecting to
> > fedoraproject.org.
>
> I'm really pissed, but still hope that Paul comes up with something soon.
>

I'm not familiar with the text of the contract but I wanted to mention
something to those who might idly be following this thread to note that
Red Hat, as owners of the Fedora name, has to protect it everywhere it
knows about it.  My understanding is if we don't protect it in one case,
we lose the protection everywhere.  So even though the text of the
contract might be over zealous[1], the contract has to exist in some form.
As long as both sides stick to it, I'm sure a good middle ground will be
found.

	-Mike

[1] I have no idea what the contract says