[Fedora-legal-list] license questions for user apps

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jul 16 17:21:28 UTC 2008


John wrote:
> Dear All,
>  
> I am looking at developing an application based on FEDORA - which will 
> run from a bootable USB under FEDORA.

Is this application free and open source software? If so you might want 
to package it and make it available within Fedora.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/ISV

> If a license is needed for every machine sold with my application on it 
> what will the license cost for the FEDORA component and any other 
> component ?

Zero. If the application itself is not included within Fedora, you 
cannot call your redistribution, Fedora. Replacing fedora-logos with 
generic-logos package will remove the major branded items. You might to 
refer to the following pages

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/CustomSpins

Rahul




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