The Multimedia Question

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jul 20 17:37:48 UTC 2007


Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> Actually it is a legal question when dealing with the 'implicit'
> trademark of Fedora. What constitutes what the name Fedora means and
> what does not. Currently what is located inside of THE CVS repository
> and built on THE build machines constitutes what people inside and
> outside of RH/Fedora as beign Fedora. Having a second set dilutes this
> trademark/image which has legal implications.

I dont know about that. Even if it has legal implications it is not 
something I can answer but it *is* possible to have different build 
systems and SCM's and still call it Fedora which is what I was pointing 
out. If it has legal implications, Legal would answer that and I am not 
going to second guess them.

Rahul




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