[Fedora-legal-list] Verifying Fedora from unofficial remixes that have removed the Fedora trademarks

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Tue Nov 2 16:13:19 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 15:57:13 +0000,
  "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/02/2010 11:27 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> > 2010/11/2 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"<johannbg at gmail.com>:
> >> Finian is not one of the names that got suggested for Fedora release 15
> >> names. ( That name should be announced today given that the voting ended at
> >> midnight ).
> >>
> >> So is Fedora release 15 ( Finian ) a cracked version of Fedora that some 25
> >> unsuspecting users are using thinking that it is the latest and greatest
> >> from Fedora or is it simply Rawhide remixed in Finnish?
> > When Jesse Keating's son was born, I temporarily renamed the rawhide
> > release to Finian (his son's name) as a way of recognizing Jesse for
> > the hard work he's put into the release engineering team.  A few weeks
> > later, we reverted back to calling it "Rawhide".  So there's no need
> > to worry about Finian.
> 
> I was only using it as an example but never the less it was a great way 
> to honour Jesse for his valuable work.

Maybe we can name F19 Ox13?



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