[fab] Kadischi : Legal issues

[Mark Webbink]

Immediate answer - the Fedora trademark guidelines pertain to the
specific FEDORA mark and logo, not the Red Hat marks (RED HAT, Shadowman
logo, etc.).  No permission is granted to use RED HAT or other Red Hat
marks with the Fedora Project or Fedora Project technologies.  As to
appropriate use of the Fedora marks, longer answer to follow.

Mark

Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:

>Hello there,
>
>I wish to find answers to certain confusions within the Kadischi
>community concerning the Kadischi Project since the "No Fedora
>Foundation" announcement and the Fedora Live CD/DVD intention.
>
>Legal
>---------
>Based on the 'Legal' materials on the fedoraproject wiki, I've
>published http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/Legal with the
>approval of GDK.
>
>This wiki page defines certain legal issues for the Livecd tester and
>as well as the Livecd creator.
>
>Nevertheless, there's still confusion concerning the Fedora Logo usage
>and the trademark 'Fedora', specialy that many are building their own
>livecd.
>
>[quoting]
>"Red Hat does not permit or consent to any use of its trademarks in any manner
>that is likely to cause confusion by implying association with or sponsorship
>by Red Hat"
>
>There is a lack of guidelines concerning the use of word "Red Hat" in a
>1. - personalised livecd based on Fedora but still complies to the
>Fedora Policies
>2. - personalised livecd based on Fedora but does NOT comply to the
>Fedora Policies
>Should the both creators of such livecds strip the words 'Fedora' and
>'redhat' completely from their product ? or only the creator (2)
>should strip them off.
>
>For me it's clear enough, that Red Hat isn't associated or a sponsor
>for those livecds. Hence should we state clearly that neither the
>Fedora Project nor Red Hat approve the usage of Fedora Logo in those
>LiveCDs ?
>
>But how about, if I or Kadischi/Contributors wants to bring forward a
>_official_ live CD, does Red Hat still associated of a sponsor for
>such livecd ?
>
>Any other idea that you might think that Kadischi/Legal wiki page
>should entail for the benefit of everyone ?
>
>Fedora Live CD/DVD
>---------
>
>[quoting]
>Live CD (Kadischi) -- Lots of people like the idea of this project,
>but there are still some problems to solve. We should empower people
>to take the reins, but if they hit a roadblock we need to find a way
>to assign them some help, without simply (a) taking the project away,
>or (b) saddling Red Hat developers with new work. DECIDED: Jeremy will
>take up the cause for Kadischi.
>
>
>I've started a discussion on the live-cd mailing list late last week:
>Kadischi: roadmap from Board meeting
>
>https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2006-April/msg00096.html
>
>I just want to hear more on this subject, (preferably on the livecd
>mailing list) what is intended and how things will get moving ?
>
> - who builds the livecds ? me ?
> - how to make the livecd useful for Fedora ambassadors ...
> - infrastructure for uploading livecds? (last time, I was hard to
>find somebody to grant me some space)
>
>This is really something new. There was never an official livecd
>before for the Fedora Project, i think Its time we start to do
>brainstorming about it.
>
>Also, we should be clear enough about the definitions:
>
>Kadischi : Kadischi is a Fedora Live CD creator tool.
>(shouldn't be confused as a Fedora Live CD)
>
>Kadischi Project : Kadischi Project is an initiative to build and make
>available a Fedora Live CD.
>
>maybe many things of these have been discussed before that Im not aware of.
>
>regards,
>Chitlesh GOORAH
>--
>http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
>
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