[fab] Re: [Famsco-list] Fedora Core 5 Re-Spin Plus! (fwd)
Max Spevack
mspevack at redhat.com
Mon Jul 17 18:53:56 UTC 2006
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Patrick W. Barnes wrote:
> The legal issues that my 5-minute review has found include:
>
> For the Fedora Project
> * Inclusion of third-party materials on installation media, with that media
> carrying the "Fedora" trademark. A violation of the trademark guidelines.
> * Inclusion of content from our wiki on the website. The content is covered
> by the OPL, which requires basic attribution for derivatives. That
> attribution is missing, leaving the site in violation of the OPL.
> * No clear offer for source code is provided for any part of the software.
> Unmodified bits might be provided by the Fedora Project, but source for the
> modifications, some of which (like the installer modifications) must be GPL,
> is not provided or offered. This is a violation of the GPL.
>
> For Fedora Unity:
> * Massive parts of the Fedora Unity site have been copied. The Fedora Unity
> content is licensed under the OPL. Again, no attribution is given. This is
> a second count of OPL violations.
>
> I might find more on a longer review. These are all things that must be
> corrected. I'll look deeper when I have more time.
Yeah, this whole website is a giant mess of issues. Not good. Especially
the GPL violation.
--Max
More information about the fedora-advisory-board
mailing list