New trademark approval policy

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 13:05, Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well I figured it was the starting point on figuring out where the
dividing line begins. In the original email from David, it seemed
there was a way in the trademark policy for some groups to use the
trademark without direct board approval, and then there were ways that
it was required. where that fuzzy line is what I was looking for.

> 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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