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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