Logo -- let's move on ... the legal loophole of "Fedora(TM)" for Red Hat

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Wed Aug 24 04:01:21 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 22:54 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> If I'm "throwing a wrench" into the Fedora Foundations plans by bringing
> this out, DON'T SHOOT THE MESSENGER!  In fact, something like this makes
> me wonder if I shouldn't send an e-mail to Brooks over at eWeek, or
> write an article myself for any one of the publications I regularly
> write for?!
> 
> Now if it is Red Hat's intent to "license" the trademark "Fedora(TM)"
> but state that they name has no relationship to an illustration of the
> same term, that _might_ be something.  But it really seems ... well, how
> can I put this ... "legally weird" in my experience.  ;->

"dude" please get legal council before dumping this kind of crap on in a
publication.

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