Of test spins and trademarks

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 07/15/2009 03:11 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings. 
> 
> I'd like some clarification from the board if possible. 
> I'll use an example of the Xfce spin here, but this would apply to any
> of the approved spins. 
> 
> - The Xfce Spin was approved by the board to use the Fedora trademark a
>   while ago. So it can use fedora-logos and is an 'official' spin. 
> 
> - If I make a rawhide Xfce spin right now with current rawhide packages
>   that seems to fall under: 
> 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Distributing_Fedora_software_2
> 
> Which says: 
> 
> "use of the Fedora Trademarks is approved by the Fedora Board."

Since I brought this up to Kevin Fenzi, let me add a concerns I have here:

Just in case, a rawhide snapshot of a spin is actually considered
pre-approved, What if someone takes Fedora KDE Spin kickstart file, adds
the updates repo or worse the rawhide repo and release it as Fedora KDE
Spin?  Rawhide can be quite broken.

One more related use case:

Does the test day images released by the QA team covered by the current
trademark guidelines.

Rahul