Re: Fedora spin from RpmFusion

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>  >
> > (The following really has been asked and answered in numerous times 
> > before...)
>
>
> But technology and published legal guidelines change...

Not every other week in this context.

> > > C. An respin with no affiliation with Red Hat/Fedora is made that 
> > > include
> > >    the "questionable packages and repos" and the user does not have to
> > >    do any work from his half ( work out of the box solution )
> >
> > If this is done, it should be rebranded and not called Fedora.
>
>
> 'should' is one of those words...
>
> By my reading of the current trademark guidelines (before they 
> disappeared from
>
> http://rhold.fedoraproject.org/About/legal/trademarks/guidelines/
>
> it is totally possible (with a little initrd guru-dom) to repackage the 
> fedora-8-livecd iso (other isos too, but I'll use this as an example), 
> such that mp3 and rpmfusion(or other arbitrary repos) work 'out of the 
> box'.

I believe you are incorrect in this reading given everything I heard on 
this topic so far.

Rahul