Logo -- dog, tag (with element), but no hat?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 18:57 -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
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>>I'm going to pull the usual and ask you to read the list archives, where
>>this has been beaten to death. Red Hat has a trademark of Shadowan, of a
>>man wearing a fedora hat.  Red Hat has to defend that trademark in order
>>to continue to be allowed to own the trademark.  That's trademark law.
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>So why can't Red Hat defend the same on Fedora(TM)?
>I have no problem with that.  After all, they _do_ lay claim to the
>trademark and they _do_ define it's guidelines on use.
>
 Fedora trademark guidelines are meant to be more a lot more flexible 
than the Red Hat or Shadow man ones. So we need to cleanly seperate them 
from each other. This is one of the reasons the name was changed into 
Fedora from Red Hat Linux Project.

regards
Rahul