[fab] Trademark in other projects

[Paul W. Frields]

On Sun, 2006-07-23 at 10:41 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 13:47 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 19:14 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > > Here's a great example of a project policing its mark: Jabber.
> > > 
> > > http://www.jabber.org/trademark/
> > > 
> > > Anything we can learn?
> > 
> > 1.  The paragraphs on fair use are of particular interest; you can do
> > things like print T-shirts saying "Go Jabber(R)!" without asking, as
> > long as you don't denigrate the product or community.  (This is a clause
> > we will absolutely need in any further licensing of the Fedora marks.)
> 
> Do we really want to keep satirical and/or negative works out?
> 
> I mean if someone wanted to use the fedora logo on a shirt at cafe press
> so it said:
> 
> Fedora Sucks
> 
> Do we really want to quash that?

It was an interesting clause, nothing more.  I don't think we need to
worry about it; hopefully we're not sucking enough to make anyone want
to do this, and if we are.... eh?...

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