[fab] Re: [Famsco-list] Fedora Core 5 Re-Spin Plus! (fwd)
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Mon Jul 17 17:25:44 UTC 2006
Looky here! Someone's doing something inventive with Fedora!
http://www.linux-respin.org
Anybody know who's behind this effort?
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:25:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com>
To: famsco-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Famsco-list] Fedora Core 5 Re-Spin Plus!
And looky looky at this URL:
http://www.linux-respin.org/tmcomply.html
They've read the trademark guidelines, and presuming that their "plus" is
provided as a clearly labeled post-install, they are within the
guidelines.
A very interesting effort. I wonder who's behind it? Difficult to find
any actual contact info on the site. :)
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
>
> The key question here is the "plus".
>
> What's the plus? Is it software in the Fedora universe?
>
> If it's not, they can't use the name. If it is, they can(1). It's as
> simple as that.
>
> --g
>
> (1) OK, it *should* be as simple as that, and I think that since we've
> given the Unity project the right to use the name on Fedora respins, it
> should be fine.
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> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Alex Maier wrote:
>
> > Besides from plagiarizing most of our homepage's copy, and using the
> > logo without our permission, I don't see what else is wrong with this
> > page.
> >
> > Offering an update subscription service and charging for it is quite
> > permissible under GPL, isn't it?
> >
> > cheers,
> > a
> >
> > On 7/17/06, Thomas Chung <tchung at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > Has anybody have any idea how many in violations with this site?
> > > http://www.linux-respin.org/
> > > One of FWN readers reported and I'm deeply concerned.
> > > Regards,
> > > --
> > > Thomas Chung
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