Lots of spins! (was Re: Topics in need of RH Legal)

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:35 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 08:29:32PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:13:21 -0400
> > Tim Burke <tburke at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > - What are the board's acceptance criteria for bestowing blessings?
> > 
> > This is a good question.
> > 
> > > - What are the benefits one gets from having a spin blessed?  ie,
> > > what does it imply?
> 
> Primarily, the right to use the Fedora trademarks and name.
> 
> 
> > Probably
> > A) being produced at release time by the Fedora Release Engineering Team
> > B) being mirrored along side the other official spins on the mirrors
> > and torrent
> 
> These aren't necessarily true, but may be in some circumstances.  I
> wouldn't want to add too many extra spins by the Release Engineering
> team.  Being listed as a torrent isn't difficult so we can pretty
> easily offer that; being posted to the master mirror servers should be
> a higher bar IMHO.

And, fwiw, I think we need to be looking at the best ways for
distributing the multitudes of spins (as well as having them created
without it being done by the rel-eng team) as well as highlighting them,
figuring out the differences, etc.  But that's a whole other discussion
from the legal side of things

Jeremy