[fab] Kadischi : Legal issues

Chitlesh GOORAH chitlesh at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 18 14:11:22 UTC 2006


I got you two guys right, Red Hat allows anyone who builds a livecd to
use Fedora Logos and Fedora Trademarks, or are there some
restrictions?





On 4/18/06, Mark Webbink <mwebbink at redhat.com> wrote:
>  Immediate answer - the Fedora trademark guidelines pertain to the specific
> FEDORA mark and logo, not the Red Hat marks (RED HAT, Shadowman logo, etc.).
>  No permission is granted to use RED HAT or other Red Hat marks with the
> Fedora Project or Fedora Project technologies.  As to appropriate use of the
> Fedora marks, longer answer to follow.
>
>  Mark
>
>  Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
>
> Hello there, I wish to find answers to certain confusions within the
> Kadischi community concerning the Kadischi Project since the "No Fedora
> Foundation" announcement and the Fedora Live CD/DVD intention. Legal
> --------- Based on the 'Legal' materials on the fedoraproject wiki, I've
> published http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Kadischi/Legal with
> the approval of GDK. This wiki page defines certain legal issues for the
> Livecd tester and as well as the Livecd creator. Nevertheless, there's still
> confusion concerning the Fedora Logo usage and the trademark 'Fedora',
> specialy that many are building their own livecd. [quoting] "Red Hat does
> not permit or consent to any use of its trademarks in any manner that is
> likely to cause confusion by implying association with or sponsorship by Red
> Hat" There is a lack of guidelines concerning the use of word "Red Hat" in a
> 1. - personalised livecd based on Fedora but still complies to the Fedora
> Policies 2. - personalised livecd based on Fedora but does NOT comply to the
> Fedora Policies Should the both creators of such livecds strip the words
> 'Fedora' and 'redhat' completely from their product ? or only the creator
> (2) should strip them off. For me it's clear enough, that Red Hat isn't
> associated or a sponsor for those livecds. Hence should we state clearly
> that neither the Fedora Project nor Red Hat approve the usage of Fedora Logo
> in those LiveCDs ? But how about, if I or Kadischi/Contributors wants to
> bring forward a _official_ live CD, does Red Hat still associated of a
> sponsor for such livecd ? Any other idea that you might think that
> Kadischi/Legal wiki page should entail for the benefit of everyone ? Fedora
> Live CD/DVD --------- [quoting] Live CD (Kadischi) -- Lots of people like
> the idea of this project, but there are still some problems to solve. We
> should empower people to take the reins, but if they hit a roadblock we need
> to find a way to assign them some help, without simply (a) taking the
> project away, or (b) saddling Red Hat developers with new work. DECIDED:
> Jeremy will take up the cause for Kadischi. I've started a discussion on the
> live-cd mailing list late last week: Kadischi: roadmap from Board meeting
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-livecd-list/2006-April/msg00096.html
> I just want to hear more on this subject, (preferably on the livecd mailing
> list) what is intended and how things will get moving ? - who builds the
> livecds ? me ? - how to make the livecd useful for Fedora ambassadors ... -
> infrastructure for uploading livecds? (last time, I was hard to find
> somebody to grant me some space) This is really something new. There was
> never an official livecd before for the Fedora Project, i think Its time we
> start to do brainstorming about it. Also, we should be clear enough about
> the definitions: Kadischi : Kadischi is a Fedora Live CD creator tool.
> (shouldn't be confused as a Fedora Live CD) Kadischi Project : Kadischi
> Project is an initiative to build and make available a Fedora Live CD. maybe
> many things of these have been discussed before that Im not aware of.
> regards, Chitlesh GOORAH -- http://clunixchit.blogspot.com
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