Re: Why not to create Fedora-us and Fedora-non-us branches?

["Paul W. Frields" <stickster gmail com>]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 05:54:21PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 05/31/2009 05:48 PM, Alexey Torkhov wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 17:33 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> On 05/31/2009 05:24 PM, Alexey Torkhov wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 16:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Usage of trademark was granted to Russian Fedora by agreement between
> >>> Red Hat and other company that represent it here, AFAIK.
> >>> Max Spevack was on presentation on Russian Fedora launch.
> >>
> >> I don't see it recorded in
> >>
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_licensees
> >>
> >> It doesn't fit the trademark guidelines either. While Red Hat can
> >> legally grant a license to anyone and doesn't have to abide by the
> >> guidelines, I would expect it to do so nevertheless. So why a special
> >> exception for "Russian Fedora"?
> > 
> > I don't know the details of an agreement, ask legal team for that.
> 
> I don't need to know the details of the agreement. If any such agreement
> exists, it should follow the trademark guidelines that Fedora set for
> rest of the community and not be given special exceptions. Can the
> Fedora Board look into this?

I'm already doing so with Max Spevack.

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