[Fedora-legal-list] Using 'fedora' in a github organization name

[Sam Kottler]

On 01/24/2014 07:55 PM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 07:39:58PM +0000, Sam Kottler wrote:
>> Greetings legal@,
>>
>> The Fedora cloud SIG has setup an organization called 'fedora-cloud' on
>> GitHub for mirroring some dist-git repos in the hopes of getting more
>> contributions. The question was asked on the cloud list (cc'ed) about
>> whether we need to get usage approval for the Fedora name to use it in
>> the organization name. fedora-infra has their own GitHub organization so
>> there is at least some precedence here.
>>
>> Do we need to get board approval for usage of 'fedora' in our GitHub org?
> 
> Yes, as a general matter using 'fedora' in the name of a github
> organization should be approved by the Board. 

Thanks for the clarification. I've filed a ticket in their trac instance
(#171, although it's private).

> 
>  - RF
>