Werewolf -> Sulphur -> <blank>? Sulphur is a <blank>, <NewName> is a <blank>

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Sat May 31 02:02:25 UTC 2008


Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2008 08:56:34 -0500
> Matt Domsch <matt at domsch.com> wrote:
>  
> > > A little added twist here.  I'd like to give the Fedora Board a chance
> > > at culling the list a little bit before sending on to Legal.  There were
> > > a number of names that made it through the "is a" test and Legal that
> > > might not have been the best ideas for naming a release.  Add to that
> > > the fact that Red Hat has used outside Legal to do the name clearance
> > > the last few times and that is a measurable cost both in time and money.
> > > The more names we ask to clear the more expensive and longer the delay
> > > will be before we have a set to vote upon.  So I am asking the Fedora
> > > Board to review the list of names that Josh has collected and remove any
> > > they deem not acceptable as a Fedora release name before handing it to
> > > Legal.
> > > 
> > > (Note, I haven't yet directly talked to the board about this, so I'm
> > > just assuming that they'll be on... board... with this.)
> > 
> > Seems a very reasonable request.  The Board doesn't want to limit
> > people's brainstorming, but I can see value in culling the list that's
> > sent out for trademark research.
> 
> OK.  So the current list I have is at:
> 
> http://jwboyer.fedorapeople.org/

Seeing what the relationship is would be nice.
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