Question about creating an electronic magazine (Publications)

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:25:16AM -0500, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 01:19:25AM +0200, Efstathios Iosifidis wrote:
> > Dear Sirs,
> > 
> > The reason I'm writing to you is because I did not understand clearly 
> > the part of publications 
> > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Publications).
> > 
> > First of all, I would like to inform you that I'm co-founder of GreekLUG 
> > (http://www.greeklug.gr).
> > Our team wants to grow the Greek Fedora Community. We had a 
> > brainstorming meeting and an idea came up to create a small electronic 
> > magazine. The subjects-sections that will have will be editorial, how 
> > to, interview, project presentations, games presentation, software. 
> > Since I recently joined the ambassadors group, I told them that there 
> > might be a problem and I better ask my mentor. He pointed me the above 
> > site and he told me to ask you if I have a question.
> > 
> > My questions are:
> > 
> > 1. Is it legal to create this small pdf magazine?
> > 2. Is it OK to use the Artwork? Is there a problem to use the Artwork 
> > with a small note that GreekLUG supports Greek Fedora community?
> > 
> > I will be waiting your reply to inform the team about it.
> 
> Hello Efstathios,
> 
> It would help if we knew your specific questions about the
> guidelines.  What part did you not understand?
> 
> The guidelines in general allow publishers to use the Fedora logo in
> their publication, as long as they follow the guidelines.  Was there a
> guideline that didn't make sense to you?
> 
> Our artwork is licensed Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC
> BY-SA) 3.0, so you may use it and remix it.  However, you must give
> proper attribution and follow the other rules for that licensing
> properly.

One extra point I should have been clearer about here:  The Fedora
*trademark* art (the infinity bubble logo, and the "fedora" text that
goes with it) are not subject to the CC BY-SA 3.0, but you may use
them in accordance with the usage and presentation guidelines.

> I'm happy to answer more of your questions about the guidelines, and
> look forward to hearing back from you.


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