Fedora Core 4 delayed until June 13

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Mon Jun 6 15:49:54 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:48 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 11:42 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> > "William Hooper" <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net> said:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Again, the problem is the release name ("Heidelberg"), not the project
> > > name.
> > 
> > Come on again, that is the name of a very well-known town in Germany. How
> > could that possibly give legal grief? Is there something else in the
> > software arena called Heidelberg that could concievably be taken as a name
> > collide?!
> > 
> > /me shakes head over incomprehensive US legal stuff.
> 
> heidelberg is the name of fedora core 3
> there was no legal problem with it at all.
> 
> stentz will be the name for fedora core 4.
> 
> the problem is that even if the name does not seem like it will cause
> problems it still needs to be checked out.
> 
> The only hold up was that the name needed to be checked, not that the
> name was bad in anyway.
> 
> everyone, quit overreacting.

But, but, it's *fun* to overreact!  And besides, in this particular
case, we get to bash lawyers, too!  BONUS!  :-)

Thomas




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