[Fedora-legal-list] SystemC OSCI License and Fedora is an Non-Profit org

[Richard Fontana]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:04:42 +0100
Chitlesh GOORAH <chitlesh.goorah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello there,
> 
> I bring this SystemC's legal discussion alive again as I believe it
> would be a very big asset for FEL.
> 
> SystemC was refused to under fedora collection due to a licensing
> issue. Tom Callaway went to talk with OSCI's lawyer with some
> recommendations, but in vain. I'm in discussions with the OSCI board
> as well to seek a tradeoff. However OSCI board tells me it is on the
> trademark item that Tom and OSCI board failed to find a tradeoff.
> 
> But isn't Fedora logos and trademarks suffers the same issue ? Perhaps
> also Firefox/Mozilla.

No; as I recall, there were problems noted with specific features of
the SystemC license trademark provision, which have no counterpart in
Fedora or Mozilla trademark policy.

- RF