Yet another website? (Re: [Ambassadors] belux ambassadors meeting log 15th April 2009)
Paul W. Frields
stickster at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 16:20:36 UTC 2009
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 05:37:13AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 04/17/2009 05:21 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > 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
>
> Shouldn't it be made public?
Refer to:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_license_agreement
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