Be excellent - answer questions

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:37:35PM +0200, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 19.05.2009, 10:26 -0400 schrieb Ricky Zhou:
> > On 2009-05-19 04:08:18 PM, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > > I have to correct my previous statement here because I quoted the
> > > trademark license agreement, not the trademark guidelines. As you both
> > > said it does not apply to fc.org. So basically one could say that people
> > > are free to do whatever they want on fc.org after the board approved
> > > their request - as long as they honor the logo guidelines. I doubt that
> > > it will that way in reality. Does the board have the option to withdraw
> > > permission? If so, under which circumstances? If not, how to prevent
> > > someone from spreading FUD via fc.org? To me this looks as if it has not
> > > really been thought out.
> > Since this is a Fedora-controlled domain, subdomains can certainly be
> > removed if anything inappropriate is going on on them.  It's probably
> > fine to discuss these things on a case-by-case basis for now, since
> > problems will hopefully be very rare :-)
> 
> I hope so too, but we need to be prepared for a worst case. Of course
> infrastructure can remove the subdomain but there needs to be a policy
> for that and not only a technical solution.

The Fedora Project Board is the natural landing place for issues
concerning the trademark and logo usage guidelines, and the Board also
approves uses of the fedoracommunity.org domains, which must adhere to
the trademark and logo usage guidelines.  Issues that arise from
fedoracommunity.org sites involving those guidelines should continue
to be decided by the Board.  The Board should and does retain the
option to withdraw permission, and perhaps the [[Local community
domains]] page should be clear about that, although the trademark
guidelines already are.

FUD -- if it was intentional and designed to hurt the Fedora Project
-- would fall under the trademark guidelines' non-disparagement
clause, I believe.  What other sorts of problems do you envision would
arise about which we should be concerned?

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