Why not to create Fedora-us and Fedora-non-us branches?

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 04:23:33PM +0400, Alexey Torkhov wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 19:31 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 12:30:48AM +0400, Alexey Torkhov wrote:
> > > There was mentioned in thread in ambassadors list that it should be
> > > actually called "Russian Fedora Remix". And it is officially called
> > > that. Russian Fedora is just a slang. Sorry for bringing in incorrect
> > > information.
> > 
> > OK, understood.  As you can see, we need to be careful about referring
> > to the actual name anywhere you talk about the distribution.
> > Otherwise there is a substantial risk to the Fedora brand and the
> > value it holds for the Fedora community, including the trademark owner
> > Red Hat.
> > 
> > > But they still use slightly modified fedora-logos package. Could you
> > > clarify logo guidelines about that package. Is it possible to use it
> > > unmodified in remix? Or all fedora logos should be replaced with fedora
> > > remix logos?
> > 
> > Modifying the official Fedora logos is not permissible.  But, as noted
> > in our trademark guidelines, we provide a special Fedora Remix logo
> > that can be used in any Fedora Remix:
> > 
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines
> > 
> > It is up to the vendor of the remix to provide an appropriate RPM that
> > 'Provides: system-logos'.
> > 
> > > Using generic-logos package would not be solution here, as, I’m sure,
> > > they will want to leave as much fedora branding as possible, without
> > > striping all logos.
> > 
> > It is not permissible to use official Fedora branding on a Remix that
> > has not been approved by the Fedora Board, or is otherwise not
> > eligible for that branding.  But the Fedora Remix mark can serve the
> > purpose you need.  The generic-logos package may not be satisfactory
> > for you, but you can use it as a guide for applying the Fedora Remix
> > mark and your own artwork as a "russian-fedora-remix-logos" RPM
> > package which you can use to build the distro.
> 
> Thanks for answer.
> 
> I've contacted Russian Fedora Remix team, they are starting process of
> bringing it in agreement to trademark and logo guidelines.

Thank you Alexey, and if you or the team has any questions, please
feel free to get in touch.

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