Why not to create Fedora-us and Fedora-non-us branches?

[Stephen Gallagher]

On 05/26/2009 01:25 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 21:10 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
>> 2009/5/26 Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com>:
>>
>>>> Subj. As Debian folks did years ago. Such branching will be done very
>>>> easy technically.
>>> Because all the builds and composition is done in the US, and the trademarks
>>> are held by a US entity.
>> Not a serious reason. Why not to relocate then in Europe?
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> With best regards!
>>
> 
> Find us a Company in Europe that is not based in the US that is willing
> to fund with people and money as much as Red Hat is doing now.
> 
> Oh, Europe won't help much, there are just as many silly laws there as
> there are in the US.
> 
> 

Is there a reason that an interested party (in a locale where such
export is legal) couldn't just create a custom spin on their own (and
using their own build system) to create a Fedora-T6 spin (or for
trademark reasons, rebrand it)? I can see this being a perfectly good
premise for setting up a SIG...

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