Tangoish Fedora logo in Mist-inherited default icon theme

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Jan 25 09:05:19 UTC 2008


Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:

> 
> And that's stupid... Trademarks... Fedora is opensource, yep?
> 
> So why is it restricted with trademarks?

Free and open source licenses cover copyrights and not trademarks. 
Trademarks are required to protect a brand and the brand is valuable 
enough to be protected. Otherwise anyone could do a distribution that 
wipes off hard disks and call it Fedora.  There are hundreds of 
different FOSS projects where the brand is protected including the Linux 
kernel, Apache, Mozilla Firefox and so on.

Rahul




More information about the Fedora-art-list mailing list