Re: draft proposal for large additions of code into Fedora

[Max Spevack <mspevack redhat com>]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Josh Boyer wrote:

> > There should be a very compelling reason to call it "Fedora". 
> > Because of our draconian trademark policy it becomes rather hard to 
> > rid the distro of the term "Fedora", and once you apply the Fedora 
> > name to something, they'll likely want to use the logo, and then we 
> > run into logo issues, etc, etc...
> >
> > I'd really like to hear a strong compelling reason to apply the term 
> > Fedora to a set of code, which by all rights we should be trying to 
> > get used in other distributions.
>
> +1

To me, this last requirement falls into "The Fedora Board has to think 
it's a good idea."  Maybe that should simply be step 1 in the process, 
to save potentially wasting other people's time/effort.

--Max