[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Online Shopping With Fedora Stuff

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>>
> I think that the problem is that Use of the Fedora Logo needs to be 
> 'authorised'. Of Course, people are allowed to sell `Fedora Core` for 
> as much as they want (as long as they do not violate GPL).

No. We dont need to authorize each and every instance. We can setup 
guidelines just like we have the trademark guidelines and ask anyone who 
wants to redistribute Fedora CD's and use the logos to go through these 
guidelines and follow them. The current guidelines available 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Logo are *temporary*.

>
> But how much money are we really going to get out of them?
>
We dont really need money from anyone who merely redistributes Fedora 
without any modifications as long as they follow the very reasonable 
guidelines put forward. We can request them to contribute to Fedora 
Foundation (remember its a non-profit and the amount can only used for 
Fedora) say a fixed percentage of sales returns in exchange for  vendor 
listings and joint promotions perhaps but thats not absolutely necessary 
if they want to just do things on their own.


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Rahul 

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