Trademarked Name? --redhar-config-*
Brent Fox
bfox at redhat.com
Sat Nov 8 16:09:56 UTC 2003
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:17:43AM -0600, David Farning wrote:
> I have been working or the past several weeks on a visual gui front end
> for yum I am considering bring that knowledge with me to work on the
> fedora project.
> But, Frankly, I am concerned about contributing to a program with a
> trademarked name. I am interested in giving back to the entire
> gnu/linux community not just the redhat community.
> If someone likes my product, I would like them to be able to freely
> use my work irregardless of their distro/flavor.
> With this in mind what are your suggestions?
>
> a. Go ahead and work on redhat-config-*
> b. Seek renaming of redhat-config-* to something vendor neutral
> c. Put my work in an up stream project and let it trickle down.
This is probably better discussed on fedora-config-list because it
affects everyone working on config tools. I want to continue this
discussion, so please send this message there.
Cheers,
Brent
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