Fedora spin from RpmFusion
Douglas McClendon
dmc.fedora at filteredperception.org
Sun Sep 30 13:21:38 UTC 2007
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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.
But you do see, that our point of disagreement is over whether or not
what I described was a 'modification'. I.e. your question is irrelevant
to the conversation, since no modification is taking place.
>
> 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.
That was my point.
-dmc
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