[Fedora-legal-list] Legal aspects of fedora based appliances

[Fabian Deutsch]

Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 16:14 -0500 schrieb Paul W. Frields:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 09:57:10PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > Fedora contains various tools for appliance creation. AFAIK it is
> > intended that Fedora shall be used as a base for various appliances ISVs
> > or OEMs want to create. But there is there some legal-guide which
> > summarizes the legal aspects of Fedora based appliances e.g. when I want
> > to distribute a Fedora AOS with some proprietary software? (As some kind
> > of media-center).
> 
> I'm assuming you mean guidance on whether, and how, these types of
> appliances can use the "Fedora" name and associated trademarks. You
> can find our full trademark guidelines here:
> 
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines
> 
> The particular section on appliances and OS images is here:
> 
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Virtual_images_or_appliances_with_unmodified_Fedora_software
>   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Virtual_images_or_appliances_with_combinations_of_Fedora_software_with_non-Fedora_or_modified_Fedora_software

The usage of the "Fedora" tardemark is just one point. There are more
questions (for me at least :) ), like:
Will a appliance providers have to keep the sources of all distributed
packages, even if they are official Fedora packages?

- fabian