Re: [fab] Re: Kadischi : Legal issues

[Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk redhat com>]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Matt Domsch wrote:

> Not in the name of the product (the branding thereof), but there
> shouldn't be a problem with someone branding a CD "FooBar the Great"
> (with no mention of Fedora in the name), that includes Fedora content.
> As a hypothetical, say a LiveCD with Fedora components, plus Dell's
> OMSA management software (which isn't open source).  It can't be
> branded anything related to Fedora, but it can be separately branded.
> The READMEs and docs may say "based on Fedora" or "created with Fedora
> content", but not the product title.

This is correct, as I understand it, with one notable caveat:

I believe that you must then pull the Fedora trademarks out.  Which is, 
IIRC, pretty straightforward.  We may want to present a helpful guide on 
how to do that.

--g

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