Fedora Dispute

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 08:48 -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:


> 
> The Cornell/UVA folks and some people in the community are making more of 
> this than they need to.  Red Hat is not the villain here.  They are just 
> trying to protect the hard work they're doing with the Fedora distribution. 
> They have no desire to impinge on the Cornell/UVA folks, and it is a pretty 
> wild stretch of the imagination that this would ever happen.

Red Hat needs to have a trademark on Fedora.
Since it is all open source software, anyone can fork it or whatever and
distribute it.
That's fine, but it would be a dis-service to the Fedora community if
someone forked it and distributed it AS FEDORA - it would cause
confusion and people buying/downloading the wrong product. That's all
that this is about.