Summary/Minutes from today's FESCo Meeting (2014-03-05)

[drago01]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> On 03/06/2014 09:11 PM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
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>> On 03/06/2014 03:02 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
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>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
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>>>> I certainly did file a complaint against generic-logos which has
>>>> a similar problem with Fedora Board which in turn dismissed my
>>>> concern and failed to answer my follow up question and I gave up
>>>> on it.  That is of course artwork that Fedora itself is upstream
>>>> of rather than merely something we package.  One would hope that
>>>> the new standard applies to concerns outside of U.S as well.
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>>> That's the crux of the issue, "offensive" is really interpreted as
>>>   "offensive to people in the USA". That just does not make sense
>>> for a worldwide distribution, nor even for an international
>>> company.
>>>
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>> This statement is blatantly false.
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>
> And I consider this to be blatantly naive. You will always find somebody who
> complains about something and you will always find situations, which were
> things are far from being clear.
>
> Just consider the "F20 swastika background" and a Fedora release once having
> been called "Werewulf". As a German, both incidents caused me to "raise an
> eye-brow", but weren't worth it to make a fuzz about.
>
> That said, it would seem common sense to me for FESCO to have contacted some
> official representative of the "American Indian People" or the "Cherokee
> Nation/People" and ask for their opinion.
>
> Did this happen? What did these representatives say?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681339#c31