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Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Dec 23 23:27:51 UTC 2004


On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 06:20:34PM -0500, Rob Shinn wrote:
> this and Red Hat has no problem with it either.  Red Hat's trademark
> policy is another issue:  you cannot call it 'Fedora Core' nor can you
> say that it's 'based on Fedora Core' or that it 'contains Fedora Core.'

I'm not a lawyer, but I *strongly* doubt that these further claims of the RH
trademark policy are enforceable. Trademark fair use allows one to use
trademarked terms descriptively, and if something is indeed based on Fedora
Core, you can say so. 



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