[fab] discussion topics for red hat ceo

[Robert 'Bob' Jensen]

Max Spevack wrote:
> On Mon, 15 May 2006, Robert 'Bob' Jensen wrote:
>>
>> In the next two weeks the Fedora Unity Project is planning on 
>> releasing its first respin for FC5 + Updates. One thing we would like 
>> to know as we move forward is can it still be called Fedora? Do we 
>> have to call it something else, and just hint as to what it is? Maybe 
>> I should bring this to the board first.
> 
> Mark is on this list.  We should be able to get his legal viewpoint 
> quite easily.
> 
> FC5 + Updates is all packages that live under the "Fedora" blessing.
> 
> I'd like for us to be able to use the official Fedora logo on it -- if 
> we call it Fedora Core 5, Update 1 or something else -- that naming is 
> something we can work on.
> 
> Effectively, aren't we giving an updated snapshot of FC5 -- the one that 
> people would get if the installed FC5 Gold and then ran yum update?  So 
> we're saving people time/bandwidth, and they get the same bits.  I want 
> to call that Fedora.
> 

I have split this off in to a new topic.

Yes our point of view on this is that it is still Fedora Core just at a 
different point in time than the "official/formal" release. We are 
adding nothing that does not come from Updates, and we are only using 
the tools that are available from Core to produce the result.

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Robert 'Bob' Jensen
Fedora Unity Project
http://fedoraunity.org/