Policy Question & Noise Level

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Nov  1, 2003, Andy Green <fedora at warmcat.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 01 November 2003 17:00, Chuck Talk wrote:
>> I am trying to find out about how Fedora will be released. I.E., if I
>> wished to release CD's of the Fedora Project, Could I do so under another
>> name without infrigning on anyone's rights? In other words, I may wish to
>> have burned CD's available of the Source and Binaries, but not call it
>> Fedora, so that people can order the same for a small fee. Is this
>> feasibale under the Fedora Project, or will this be considered an
>> infringement of the rights of the developers and contributors?

> You can't use the Redhat-specific art in this case, nor the Redhat-owned 
> trademarks (whatever they are, "Redhat" at least).  Redhat seem to put these 
> goodies in nicely separate packages.

Note that the redistribution terms of Fedora Core are different from
those of Red Hat Linux.  This was actually one of the reasons for the
rename.  

See http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/ for all the details.
Compare with http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/

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