The first Fedora (tm) project.

[Robin Laing]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 09:59, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>The Fedora(tm) Project.
>><http://www.fedora.info/>
>>

> 
> Hi,
>  I talked with Michael Johnson who is cited as the leader of the fedora
> project on the fedora.redhat.com pages.
> 
> He talked with the legal counsel at red hat and got the following info.
> 
> - the fedora.info people haven't tried to take a number of steps to work
> it out - they've taken none
> - fedora.info was only using f.e.d.o.r.a as an acronym -not as a
> trademark
> - only  after the rh trademark filing did fedora.info assert a trademark
> - rh had previously informed uva and cornell that rh would not interfere
> with their continued use of the fedora trademark.
> - the fedora has been associated with red hat ever since the shadowman
> logo was adopted.
> 
> so there is some more exact info.
> 
> it seems to me rh has acted both legally and ethically correct -
> especially that they told uva and cornell that they would not interfere
> with the use of the term for the fedora.info project.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
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This is good news.

The first WWW site says something different from what you posted but I 
cannot remember how I got to in.  From what you posted, it looks as if 
there is nothing to worry about.

-- 
Robin Laing