[Fedora-spins] cleanup of spins process

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 03:10:48PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2015 at 07:57:14PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > The bit I'm not sure is covered by the Change process is the old
> > "Board" approval that covers trademarks, it might be that it's decided
> > that it's no longer required, or something that FESCo can escalate if
> > they think is necessary or we could amend the Changes process to add a
> > small Spins section about Council and trademarks requirements.
> 
> Good point. Making this up as I go along, I think we might be okay to
> have a blanket grant of trademark use for all spins which are approved
> by FESCo and which follow the basic Spins Guidelines — particularly,
> all bits must be from Fedora proper. But it's probably also a good idea
> to get some advice from Legal on whether that kind of blanket allowance
> is a good idea.

Agreed, email the legal@ list to get advice on a blanket allowance.
That process change seems reasonable to me.

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