[fab] Fedora Logo Proposal

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Aug 8 17:02:08 UTC 2006


Greg DeKoenigsberg (gdk at redhat.com) said: 
> 
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 18:25 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > 
> > >   * People who are redistributing something based on Fedora, but who are 
> > > NOT following the above redistribution guidelines, may NOT use the Fedora 
> > > logo.  If they choose to use the text "based on Fedora," we won't stop 
> > > them.
> > 
> > While I don't disagree with anything in this policy, Aurora would not be
> > permitted to use the Fedora logo as we are simply taking Fedora universe
> > packages, patching for sparc, and adding sparc specific OSS utils.
> 
> So then the next question would be, "is there anything that precludes you 
> from adding these utilities into the Fedora Universe?"
> 
> We'd have three options:
> 
> 1. Expand the notion of "Fedora Universe";
> 2. Add special cases for those like the Aurora project;
> 3. Allow the Aurora project to make a special request -- which, knowing 
> your purpose, we'd almost certainly grant.

Do #3 until we think of something better? I suppose we'll eventually
run into this for other arches, and will need to come up with some
sort of non-tier1-arch thing; but until that point, might be best
to just do exceptions.

Bill




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