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

[Bjørn Andersen]

I understand that. And agree that the Red Hat logo is for Red Hat
only. They diserv to make money out of it (i have 2), but as long as
the Fedora brand is not mis-used, I cant see how it can hurt the
Fedora project. And I cant see why Fedora project need to make money
out of somebudy that are making free kommersials for Fedora.

I thnk that some Fedora ambassidors need to contact them, and ask why
they did not ask for permission. And then (if they arent rude) add
them to the reseller list.

Dont push for money. They is will just abandom the T-shirts and sell
Ubuntu shirts instead.


/Bjorn Andersen

On 12/26/05, Patrick Barnes <nman64 at n-man.com> wrote:
> Mauricio Pretto - LM² wrote:
> > 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 ?
> >
> >
> >       - 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
> >
> 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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