[fab] Licensing the Fedora logo
Josh Boyer
jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Thu Jul 13 19:40:03 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:32 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Jesse Keating wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 13 July 2006 14:24, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > > If we can't even allow *free redistribution* of the logo, then how can we
> > > allow *free modification and redistribution*? The answer is, WE CAN'T.
> > > To repeat: NONE OF THE CURRENT OSS/CC LICENSES APPLY. PERIOD.
> >
> > Does this mean that Fedora is not redistributable? Wasn't that one of the
> > major goals of Fedora?
>
> A fair question.
>
> We do essentially grant a "license" of sorts for redistribution of the
> logo, and they can be found in our trademark guidelines, here:
>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/About/legal/trademarks/guidelines/page4.html
>
> This license means that Fedora, *as we ship it*, is fully redistributable.
> But if you change the content, you must lose the logo, because shipping
> altered content violates the terms of usage of the logo.
>
> This is a reasonable compromise, IMHO, but this *particular* flavor of
> compromise leaves no room to play with the logo. At all.
>
> There is another reasonable compromise:
>
> 1. Come up with a "protected" logo that ships with FCn, and really
> anywhere we need to emphasize the strong relationship between RH and
> Fedora.
Aka, the RH logo, but with a blue hat instead (as an example).
> 2. Apply the aforementioned guidelines to the "protected" logo.
> 3. "Free" the current logo.
> 4. Grant broader rights to the "free" logo via a CC license.
I like this. How does it get pushed to the appropriate people?
josh
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