On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 16:41 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > However, this here is Fedora, a project that once was aiming at > "Freedom" - As trivial as it is, restrictive trademark policies simply > do not fit into this philosophy.
If we don't protect the Fedora trademark, anyone can produce anything and call it 'Fedora'. Including something which doesn't fit into our philosophy of freedom at all. It's really pretty simple: we can only define goals and values and blahblah for 'the Fedora project' as long as we actually retain control over 'the Fedora project' (that's we as in the Fedora community, not Red Hat, BTW) and we can only do that if we control the name 'Fedora'. If anyone can make anything and call it 'Fedora', how are people to know what comes from the Fedora project and is backed by its values, and what doesn't? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
