draft proposal for large additions of code into Fedora
Max Spevack
mspevack at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 02:48:07 UTC 2008
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> There should be a very compelling reason to call it "Fedora".
>> Because of our draconian trademark policy it becomes rather hard to
>> rid the distro of the term "Fedora", and once you apply the Fedora
>> name to something, they'll likely want to use the logo, and then we
>> run into logo issues, etc, etc...
>>
>> I'd really like to hear a strong compelling reason to apply the term
>> Fedora to a set of code, which by all rights we should be trying to
>> get used in other distributions.
>
> +1
To me, this last requirement falls into "The Fedora Board has to think
it's a good idea." Maybe that should simply be step 1 in the process,
to save potentially wasting other people's time/effort.
--Max
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