Hello everybody!
Greetings from Russia. Russian Ambassadors want to know - what is Russian Fedora? Is it official spin-off or it's unlegal?
"Usage of trademark was granted to Russian Fedora by agreement between Red Hat and other company that represent it here, AFAIK."
Is it true? I wanna know, becouse i should know what to tell people about this project.
"Max Spevack was on presentation on Russian Fedora launch.".
Max, can you comment this?
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Best regards, Dmitry Vorotnikov | foxhaund@gmail.com
Fedora is a OS based on GPL, policty of free software, but its under registerde by Red Hat and other... everybody can to help with the project, but it must to respect the trademark....
My greetings from Colombia.
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Hi Dmitry,
"Usage of trademark was granted to Russian Fedora by agreement between Red Hat and other company that represent it here, AFAIK."
Where are you quoting this from?
Max, can you comment this?
Sure. I'll repeat the same things that I wrote and said last year when I was in Moscow, regarding a "Russian Fedora" spin.
It's perfectly ok to take additional non-Fedora packages and build a new image that is a combination of (for example) Fedora and RPMFusion.
Many people do this, but from a trademark perspective, once we do that we can't call it "Fedora" anymore, but have to give it a different name. We call it a Fedora "remix".
See here -- http://tinyurl.com/mwov8n (links to Fedora wiki)
There was a thread about this in December that Paul Frields and I were on, and the end result was that we asked for it to be called "Fedora Russian Remix 10/11/12" if there were any changes being made from the "official" Fedora package set.
Basically, these are the same guidelines that apply everywhere around the world. Nothing different for Russia.
--Max
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 12:00:49PM +0200, Max Spevack wrote:
Hi Dmitry,
"Usage of trademark was granted to Russian Fedora by agreement between Red Hat and other company that represent it here, AFAIK."
Where are you quoting this from?
Max, can you comment this?
Sure. I'll repeat the same things that I wrote and said last year when I was in Moscow, regarding a "Russian Fedora" spin.
It's perfectly ok to take additional non-Fedora packages and build a new image that is a combination of (for example) Fedora and RPMFusion.
Many people do this, but from a trademark perspective, once we do that we can't call it "Fedora" anymore, but have to give it a different name. We call it a Fedora "remix".
See here -- http://tinyurl.com/mwov8n (links to Fedora wiki)
There was a thread about this in December that Paul Frields and I were on, and the end result was that we asked for it to be called "Fedora Russian Remix 10/11/12" if there were any changes being made from the "official" Fedora package set.
Right, although I think the most correct way to name it would be "Russian Fedora Remix 10/11/12," since "Fedora Remix" should be kept together as a single term.
Basically, these are the same guidelines that apply everywhere around the world. Nothing different for Russia.
Can we raise someone from the team producing this Fedora Remix to make sure they are up to speed on the guidelines?
And if they are going to be using a domain with "fedora" in it, we also need to make sure the domain owner is operating under a trademark license. I don't show any record of the Board having issued such a license for any Russian domain to date.
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