On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 05:37:13AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

On 04/17/2009 05:21 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:

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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Robert Scheck wrote:

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On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Christoph Wickert wrote:

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Let's face it: ATM the changes have caused confusion and discomfort in the Fedora community. For example fedora.de has been taken offline because of discrepancies between the trademark holder and the domain owner. Robert as the domain owner is a well known and valuable contributor of the project and all AFAIK all he did was redirecting to fedoraproject.org.

I'm really pissed, but still hope that Paul comes up with something soon.

I'm not familiar with the text of the contract but I wanted to mention something to those who might idly be following this thread to note that Red Hat, as owners of the Fedora name, has to protect it everywhere it knows about it. My understanding is if we don't protect it in one case, we lose the protection everywhere. So even though the text of the contract might be over zealous[1], the contract has to exist in some form. As long as both sides stick to it, I'm sure a good middle ground will be found.

-Mike

[1] I have no idea what the contract says

Shouldn't it be made public?

Refer to: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Trademark_license_agreement