requesting a trademark license for our community

[delhage at gmail.com]

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 18:41, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Will
>>
>> Red Hat try to enforce the trademarks in this case? Will it use it's
>> legal powers to try and shutdown fedoraproject.ir? I would like to get
>> a public clarification regarding this issue and an explanation how two
>> of the four F's, "Freedom" and "Friends" are compatible with this
>> policy.
>
> Red Hat is the legal entity behind Fedora and a US based organizations would
> have to follow laws even if it believes those are stupid or silly. I mean,
> Fedora would love to ignore silly software patents and include valuable and
> otherwise perfectly fine free and open source software. We just cannot in
> some cases. That is unfortunate but you shouldn't blame the messenger.
>
I understand that. My question is really if Red Hat is *required* to
go after an "infringement" in this case or if it can just drop it and
pretend like nothing has happened?

Lars

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