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).
Greetings fabian
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_... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Virtual_images_or_...
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_... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Virtual_images_or_...
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
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:22:07PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
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_... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Virtual_images_or_...
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?
Spot or someone else will correct me if I go wrong here, but because the Fedora Project ships source pursuant to the requirements of the GPLv2 section 3(a), downstream remixers cannot simply point to the Fedora Project for source distribution (as in section 3(c)). This is intentional and unlikely to change in the near future. Also, section 3(c) as I understand it is not workable for commercial redistributors.
The best solution I can imagine is for downstream remixers to simply prepare the matching source collection, and offer it at the same point of distribution under GPL 3(a) as well. IANAL, TINLA, and so forth.
Am Mittwoch, den 09.12.2009, 19:19 -0500 schrieb Paul W. Frields:
On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:22:07PM +0100, Fabian Deutsch wrote:
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_... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Virtual_images_or_...
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?
Spot or someone else will correct me if I go wrong here, but because the Fedora Project ships source pursuant to the requirements of the GPLv2 section 3(a), downstream remixers cannot simply point to the Fedora Project for source distribution (as in section 3(c)). This is intentional and unlikely to change in the near future. Also, section 3(c) as I understand it is not workable for commercial redistributors.
Okay. Thansk to clarify this.
The best solution I can imagine is for downstream remixers to simply prepare the matching source collection, and offer it at the same point of distribution under GPL 3(a) as well. IANAL, TINLA, and so forth.
But remixers could use the srpms, provided in the official Fedora spins, to build some custom "appliance"-spin?
fabian
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