Abuse of Fedora trademark

Tim Lauridsen tla at rasmil.dk
Fri Jul 27 10:10:36 UTC 2007


Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I was reading todays lwn and found this article:
> http://lwn.net/Articles/242830/
>
> About this piece of software:
> http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=62829
>
> Which is a utility to ease the install of certain software on Fedora. 
> As you all know I've suggested the inclusion of such a utility into 
> Fedora, and thus I have nothing against the idea in general, nor to 
> call something like this easyfedora, as its called. But this software 
> is released under a proprietary license (according to the webpage). To 
> me the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a proprietary 
> license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the Fedora 
> trademark policies. Can those who have the power please kindly request 
> this person to cease and desist.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Hans
>
Hi Hans

Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines , maybe 
you should send the mail to *trademark*s at redhat.com 
<mailto:trademarks at redhat.com>

Best Regards,
Tim

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