Yet another website? (Re: [Ambassadors] belux ambassadors meeting log 15th April 2009)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 04/17/2009 05:21 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Robert Scheck wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Christoph Wickert wrote:
>>> Let's face it: ATM the changes have caused confusion and discomfort in
>>> the Fedora community. For example fedora.de has been taken offline
>>> because of discrepancies between the trademark holder and the domain
>>> owner. Robert as the domain owner is a well known and valuable
>>> contributor of the project and all AFAIK all he did was redirecting to
>>> fedoraproject.org.
>> I'm really pissed, but still hope that Paul comes up with something soon.
>>
> 
> I'm not familiar with the text of the contract but I wanted to mention
> something to those who might idly be following this thread to note that
> Red Hat, as owners of the Fedora name, has to protect it everywhere it
> knows about it.  My understanding is if we don't protect it in one case,
> we lose the protection everywhere.  So even though the text of the
> contract might be over zealous[1], the contract has to exist in some form.
> As long as both sides stick to it, I'm sure a good middle ground will be
> found.
> 
> 	-Mike
> 
> [1] I have no idea what the contract says

Shouldn't it be made public?

Rahul