Fedora spin from RpmFusion

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Sun Sep 30 12:51:06 UTC 2007


Douglas McClendon wrote:

> Is it ok for
>> anyone and everyone to do so with any set of software? Does the 
>> current trademark guidelines match the goals of the project?
> 
> Honestly, what business is it of yours, how people distribute 
> *unmodified* copies of fedora?  

Some modifications are explicitly allowed by the trademark guidelines. 
My question to the Fedora Project Board was whether it should be.

Sure I'd love to have a legal license
> which states that any free software I write, cannot be used by 
> governments to support in any way whatsoever an institution which 
> engages in 'baiting' tactics that use entrapment as justification for 
> murder, but I'm a realist.

Such a restriction wouldn't qualify as Free software at all.

Rahul




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