[Fedora-legal-list] Re: [Fedora-spins] rpmfusion based spin

[Paul W. Frields]

Also CC'ing the Fedora legal list which is also concerned with issues
like the trademark guidelines.

Paul

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 17:16 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> CC'ing the Fedora Spins SIG mailing list as this concerns most of the 
> subscribers there as well.
> 
> KH KH wrote:
> > 2008/8/26 Rahul Sundaram <metherid at gmail.com>:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have been keep a tab on rpmfusion progress by reading the archives and  it
> >> seems the repository is getting reading for launch soon. Congrats on that.
> >>
> >> My primary interest here at the moment is creating a spin based on rpmfusion
> >> and Fedora which  Thorsten Leemhuis mentioned as desirable in one of his
> >> earlier mails to this list.
> > I don't know if Thorsten ever mention such "spin" but having both
> > rpmfusion and fedora on the same media is a very hard legal issue.
> > Actually that's even not possible at all without removing the name
> > Fedora from such spin. (meaning removing artworks and some others
> > packages i don't remember).
> 
> FWIW, if RPMFusion wishes to provide and distribute their own version of 
> Fedora, including whatever packages not in Fedora, either Free or free 
> or not free at all, right now this is enough:
> 
> %packages
> # Remove the fedora-logos package and include something without
> # Fedora trademarked material
> -fedora-logos
> generic-logos (or: rpmfusion-logos if you have the artwork)
> # Include rpmfusion-release as well
> rpmfusion-release
> %end
> 
> %post
> # Substitute the Fedora name in /etc/fedora-release and /etc/issue,
> # which are both owned by package fedora-release, so that it doesn't
> # pop up in all kinds of weird places such as when booting the machine
> # ("Welcome to .... Press I to start interactive ..." comes to mind).
> # Note that _all_ trademarks are supposed to be in fedora-logos.
> sed -i -e 's/Fedora/RPMFusion/g' /etc/fedora-release /etc/issue
> %end
> 
> And you're done.
> 
> > To be more accurate: You can do such spins for yourself (either with
> > free only or with nonfree packages), but you cannot redistribute the
> > spin telling it is Fedora. (because it won't be fedora anymore). But
> > you can (have to ?) tell this work is based (derived?) on Fedora.
> > 
> 
> This (being able to say "based on Fedora") is pending the new trademark 
> policy at 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pfrields/NewTrademarkGuidelines
> 
> I hope this clarifies some of the issues wrt. a RPMFusion spin.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
> -kanarip
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