Hi All,
I was reading todays lwn and found this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/242830/
About this piece of software: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=62829
Which is a utility to ease the install of certain software on Fedora. As you all know I've suggested the inclusion of such a utility into Fedora, and thus I have nothing against the idea in general, nor to call something like this easyfedora, as its called. But this software is released under a proprietary license (according to the webpage). To me the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a proprietary license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the Fedora trademark policies. Can those who have the power please kindly request this person to cease and desist.
Thanks & Regards,
Hans
On 07/26/2007 02:52 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
I was reading todays lwn and found this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/242830/
About this piece of software: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=62829
Which is a utility to ease the install of certain software on Fedora. As you all know I've suggested the inclusion of such a utility into Fedora, and thus I have nothing against the idea in general, nor to call something like this easyfedora, as its called. But this software is released under a proprietary license (according to the webpage). To me the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a proprietary license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the Fedora trademark policies. Can those who have the power please kindly request this person to cease and desist.
Copy that!
-of
2007/7/26, dragoran drago01@gmail.com:
Hans de Goede wrote:
To me the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a proprietary license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the Fedora trademark policies.
+1
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Hi This person was adviced in this thead (french) http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=180056
Quick sum-up, he was asked to release the code, anyway i don't think. This is the right way of doing (it is better to script - and some scripts exist with the same purpose).
For those interested in it, and in my view, the mandatory thing will be to advices end-users and beginners and in each case, why this is not merged into Fedora... Not only to tick some boxes to have thing installed without to understand anythings and how to work with alternatives...
Nicolas (kwizart)
Ps: See works that have already done on the subject : http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Fedora_Helper.html http://easylinux.info/wiki/Fedora_frog
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:00:20 +0200 "KH KH" kwizart@gmail.com wrote:
This person was adviced in this thead (french) http://forums.fedora-fr.org/viewtopic.php?pid=180056
Quick sum-up, he was asked to release the code, anyway i don't think. This is the right way of doing (it is better to script - and some scripts exist with the same purpose).
Regardless if he opens the code, he doesn't have the right to use the Fedora logo/Trademark.
Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede <at> hhs.nl> writes:
easyfedora, as its called. But this software is released under a proprietary license (according to the webpage). To me the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a proprietary license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the Fedora trademark policies.
Not only that, he's also in violation of the Qt license (unless he has a commercial license, which I strongly doubt).
Kevin Kofler
Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi All,
I was reading todays lwn and found this article: http://lwn.net/Articles/242830/
About this piece of software: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=62829
Which is a utility to ease the install of certain software on Fedora. As you all know I've suggested the inclusion of such a utility into Fedora, and thus I have nothing against the idea in general, nor to call something like this easyfedora, as its called. But this software is released under a proprietary license (according to the webpage). To me the use of the Fedora Trademark in combination with a proprietary license is not acceptable and a clear violation of the Fedora trademark policies. Can those who have the power please kindly request this person to cease and desist.
Thanks & Regards,
Hans
Hi Hans
Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines , maybe you should send the mail to *trademark*s@redhat.com mailto:trademarks@redhat.com
Best Regards, Tim
Le vendredi 27 juillet 2007, Tim Lauridsen a écrit :
Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines , maybe you should send the mail to *trademark*s@redhat.com mailto:trademarks@redhat.com
Before using a big hammer to swat a fly, perhaps it should be a nice idea to ask the developer to remove any direct reference (name, logo) to Fedora, don't you think?
Regards, Alain
Alain PORTAL wrote:
Le vendredi 27 juillet 2007, Tim Lauridsen a écrit :
Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines , maybe you should send the mail to *trademark*s@redhat.com mailto:trademarks@redhat.com
Before using a big hammer to swat a fly, perhaps it should be a nice idea to ask the developer to remove any direct reference (name, logo) to Fedora, don't you think?
+1 else it might cause the same flamewars as the bcm stuff on the openbsd-list but we also have too tell him not to violate the gpl (see kevin's post)
Alain PORTAL wrote:
Le vendredi 27 juillet 2007, Tim Lauridsen a écrit :
Based on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/TrademarkGuidelines , maybe you should send the mail to *trademark*s@redhat.com mailto:trademarks@redhat.com
Before using a big hammer to swat a fly, perhaps it should be a nice idea to ask the developer to remove any direct reference (name, logo) to Fedora, don't you think?
Legal can handle this politely. They have already got this information.
Rahul