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

[Bjørn Andersen]

The T-shirts are just free publicity for Fedora.
I dont think Novell is attacking all websites selling SUSE T-shirts,
or Ubuntu or Mandriva or...

If it doesen't harm, then why be angry about it?


/Bjorn Andersen

On 12/26/05, Mauricio Pretto - LM² <mauricio at lm2.com.br> wrote:
> 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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>
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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.
> >
> >
>
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