[Fedora-ambassadors-list] Online Shopping With Fedora Stuff

[Mauricio Pretto - LM²]

They are not just selling cd's.
They sell Tshirts, pens and other, usually this should only be selled by 
fedora .
The guys from debian, only let autorized people sell stuff with debian 
logo, this is a way to rise founds.

The cd's i dont see any problem as we have the list of autorized vendors 
at: http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/vendors.html

Regards

Mauricio Pretto
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Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Hi
>
>>>
>> I think that the problem is that Use of the Fedora Logo needs to be 
>> 'authorised'. Of Course, people are allowed to sell `Fedora Core` for 
>> as much as they want (as long as they do not violate GPL).
>
>
> No. We dont need to authorize each and every instance. We can setup 
> guidelines just like we have the trademark guidelines and ask anyone 
> who wants to redistribute Fedora CD's and use the logos to go through 
> these guidelines and follow them. The current guidelines available 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Marketing/Logo are *temporary*.
>
>>
>> But how much money are we really going to get out of them?
>>
> We dont really need money from anyone who merely redistributes Fedora 
> without any modifications as long as they follow the very reasonable 
> guidelines put forward. We can request them to contribute to Fedora 
> Foundation (remember its a non-profit and the amount can only used for 
> Fedora) say a fixed percentage of sales returns in exchange for  
> vendor listings and joint promotions perhaps but thats not absolutely 
> necessary if they want to just do things on their own.
>
>