GNOME as the default desktop (was Re: Fedora Board Meeting Minutes - 2010-12-06)

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> the question it raises in my mind is this:
>>
>> Is the point/goal of Fedora's Desktop to promote Gnome?
>>
>> Since this is a request from Gnome for Fedora to promote Gnome. Would it
>> make sense for a bit of quid-pro-quo. How about GNOME endorse fedora?
>
>
> Project identify and branding is firming up as an unavoidable issue in
> relations between upstream and downstream in multiple UI oriented
> projects on several fronts it seems.

And in fact its moving both ways. In MeeGo they are licensing their
look and feel as proprietary and we explicitly can't use it.

Peter