Status of the picture book

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Fri Feb 27 15:44:26 UTC 2009


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:38:41PM -0500, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> On 2009-02-26 at 14:13:36 -0500, William Cattey <wdc at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > I agree with Chuck.
> > 
> > Although I was easily able to sign the model release I received at
> > FudCon because it was releasing the image I gave, the Red Hat lawyers
> > seem to want perpetual license to use all aspects of my likeness for
> > marketing purposes, and MIT, my employer will not permit that.
> > 
> > MIT does not get involved in the marketing of products, and if my face
> > and title were used in certain contexts, it would conflict with my
> > employer's strictures on MIT marketing.
> 
> These are very valid points. Red Hat Legal was able to quickly turn
> around a new version of this document for us, please look at:
> 
> http://spot.fedorapeople.org/Model%20and%20Contribution%20Release%20rev1.pdf
> 
> It is no longer an "exclusive" agreement, and it is now bounded to the
> Fedora Picture Book only.
> 
> Please let me know if there are any additional concerns, Red Hat is more
> than willing to work with our needs here.

Thanks for shepherding this along, Spot.

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