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

[Mauricio Pretto - LM²]

This is what i am talking about!

Mauricio Pretto
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Patrick Barnes wrote:

>Mauricio Pretto - LM² wrote:
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>>Hi Guys,
>>     I dont know if this already has been discussed here, and if this
>>is the right place to talk about this, but.....
>>
>>     There is a online shopping site here in Brazil called LinuxMall
>>(www.linuxmall.com.br) that sells Fedora stuff (t-shirts, pens, mugs
>>and others), i dont know if they have autorization to do this, i guess
>>they dont.
>>
>>     I think we can talk with them and make part of this money be
>>donnated to fedora project dont you think ?
>>
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>>      - http://www.linuxmall.com.br/index.php?category=canetas
>>     - http://www.linuxmall.com.br/index.php?category=camisetas
>>     - http://www.linuxmall.com.br/index.php?category=camisas
>>
>>Regards
>>
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>This is a violation of the Trademark Guidelines
>(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines).  The
>Trademark Guidelines prevent this kind of commercial usage.  Stock
>Fedora CDs are permitted, but selling other merchandise with the Fedora
>(or Red Hat) marks is not permitted.  The reason that not just anyone
>can use the trademark is so that we have the opportunity to protect the
>Fedora name from abuse and keep Fedora from being misrepresented.  If
>they would like to discuss using the trademark with us, we can probably
>work something out for them to continue selling merchandise, but they
>should not otherwise be permitted to continue.  We have the opportunity
>to decide how the Fedora name and brand can be used, and we should take
>advantage of that opportunity to keep others from using the Fedora brand
>in a way that is against the spirit of Fedora.  We do want people to be
>able to create and distribute Fedora merchandise, but we must be careful
>to avoid commercial exploitation that misrepresents or hurts Fedora.
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