Dell + Linux

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Feb 21 15:17:09 UTC 2007


Mike McGrath wrote:
> Jesse Keating wrote:
>> Unless we create the second logo set, I don't think we'll get very far 
>> with pre-installation.  Most vendors will want to sweeten the user 
>> experience, and possibly add branding.  Any of that will make it no 
>> longer Fedora, and the vendor would be unable to make such claims 
>> under the trademark policy.  They'd have to remove all the Fedora/RH 
>> trademarked logos and such too.
>>   
> What if we helpped Dell create an OSS gnome and KDE theme and got it 
> into Extras?

Well Dell might want to control its branding more than we allow for 
within the package licensing guidelines for Fedora. It is a reasonable 
for them to want to do that.

Rahul




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