Spins process - technical requirements

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 18:36:42 UTC 2008


On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:46:58AM -0500, Jon Stanley wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > They seem reasonable for things which are aspiring to be Fedora(tm)
> > Spins. For those that don't want to use either of the trademarks, they're
> > obviously not that relevant.
> 
> Brings up an excellent question. Do they apply for just the main
> Fedora trademark, or also the secondary mark? IMHO, we don't want to
> be sullying the reputation of the secondary mark because we have a
> sub-standard community-produced spin.

The "Fedora Remix" mark was invented precisely to avoid community
members having to go through an approval process.  I made a wiki page
for easy redirection if needed:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Remix

> Though I *believe*, however I'm not sure, that spins carrying the
> secondary mark would be allowed to use third-party content in their
> spins. Is this correct?

That's correct.  The new trademark guidelines lay out the use cases
for the Fedora Remix mark:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/Trademark_guidelines

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