[Fedora-livecd-list] FYI- no fedora-logos behaviour

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon May 1 17:02:22 UTC 2006


Jane Dogalt (jdogalt at yahoo.com) said: 
> Back in the day when fedora was supposedly a distinct community entity, one
> could take the reasonable implication that if fedora could use redhat-artwork,
> any other community project could as well.
> 
> I notice that the centos strategy appears to be keeping redhat-artwork as an
> rpm, but (I haven't inspected that closely) scraping some red hats out of it.

The formerly-on-the-main-menu red fedora hat was not a trademarked image.

> I'm curious- All the bluecurve stuff in redhat-artwork-  Does redhat stake
> claim to that?  I guess I need to actually install centos and see specifically
> what they do, as they seem to be the standard reference for how to deal with
> making a derivative distro and respecting the copyright/trademark guidelines of
> the "upstream vendor".

Check the license on the package, but I'm fairly sure all the bluecurve
icons are GPL. (and the Fedora(tm) background needs moved to fedora-logos)

Bill




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