[Ambassadors] Clarification Needed

Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) bochecha at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 13 22:39:22 UTC 2009


>> Fedora is free regarding the code. Debian is somehow « freeer » as
>> they also consider trademark freedom.
>
> It's not that they consider trademark freedom, but rather that they
> interpret the requirement to remove trademarks as an encroachment on
> the freedom of the source code.  I don't believe that's an accurate
> reading of trademark law or freedom; it's one of the few areas where
> we probably differ from Debian, since we see eye to eye with them on
> many issues.

Yes, that sentance of mine was definitely not clear. Language bareer
and all this stuff.

Thanks for clarifying it, that's actually what I meant by « they
consider trademark freedom » :)

>> However, if you are concerned about this particular issue, you can
>> replace the « fedora-logos » package by the « generic-logos » one.
>> This package is the only one in Fedora that carries the Fedora
>> trademarked logo, and you can easily replace it.
>
> Remember that the "Fedora" name is a trademark too; by replacing
> fedora-release and fedora-release-notes with the generic-* equivalents
> you are completing the task.

Didn't know about the generic-release{,-notes} packages, only about
the generic-logos. Learning everytime :)

Regards,


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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)




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