New trademark approval policy

[Tom Callaway]

On 08/01/2011 02:20 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> Well the problem here is "who are we". If I work for Red Hat it is
> clear. If I don't it become more nebulous.. if the people at Linode
> had signed the FPCA, does that mean they would need to follow these
> rules, but if they didn't.. they don't? When does the "We" occur.

Technically, the FPCA has nothing to do with this.

Everyone should be following the trademark guidelines. (To be completely 
anal, Red Hat does not have to follow the guidelines because it owns the 
trademarks, but it is safe to assume that Red Hat abides by the 
guidelines in all sane scenarios.)

This issue is about the case where someone wants approval to use the 
Fedora mark (and not the Remix mark), and what the process should be for 
that approval.

Christoph is asking for that process to be documented, specifically:

* Identifying which groups within fedora are responsible for signoffs of 
spins/images/handouts using the Fedora mark.
* Asking these groups to document the necessary process for getting that 
signoff.
* Centralizing this information in a single location

IMHO, it is the Board's responsibility to oversee and complete the above 
tasks, keeping in mind that certain use cases may not need signoff from 
all groups (e.g. a spin/image not intended for physical distribution 
with no changes in artwork probably does not need to be reviewed by the 
Design Team).

~tom

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