Unofficial Fedora Remix being advertised on the project front page

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Jared K. Smith
<jsmith at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What is an example of an official remix? I don't understand the
>> distinction between official and unofficial remixes? Aren't all
>> remixes outside the scope of the Fedora Project and unofficial from
>> our perspective?
>
>
> As far as I understand it, there is no such thing as an "official" remix.
> All remixes are outside the scope of the Fedora Project.
>
> As much as I love Pidora (even to the point of providing hosting for their
> site) and think the Seneca folks are doing a fine job with it, I'm not sure
> how far I would personally want to go down the road towards categorizing
> remixes into two camps of "we will advertise these remixes" and "we won't
> advertise these remixes" on the website.  One could hope that common sense
> would prevail, but if there's anything I've learned over the past several
> years, it's that common sense to one person is complete madness to another.
> With that in mind, I've come to my own personal conclusion that if it were
> totally up to me (and thank goodness it isn't!), I would think it best not
> to advertise any remixes on the front page of the Fedora Project website.  A
> sobering conculsion to be sure, but I can't see any other logical end that
> doesn't somehow split remixes into "haves" and "have nots".

Pidora was made a special case when Red Hat granted them permission to
use that trademark on a remix. And while I think that was a mistake,
it is water under the bridge and all we can tell other remixes now is
you aren't as special as Pidora is to us.

When any other remix asks for a name that is as similar to Fedora as
Pidora is they will almost certainly be told no. When any other remix
asks for a logo that is the Fedora logo with a few small changes made
to it they will almost certainly be told no.

However we choose to deal with Pidora issues now, I don't think they
will set a precedent for other remixes.

John