On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:15:24AM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 03:10:26PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I have an idea¹ for creating a label for experimental/innovative work
> within the Fedora Project which is not ready to be (or maybe is never
> intended to be) Official Fedora. For example, release engineering wants
> to make sure that all bits that are "official" go through releng
> processes — which is totally reasonable, and helps support the high
> quality people have come to expect from the Fedora name. At the same
> time, we have a charter to be leaders, and to do that we need a space
> where we can be more flexible.
>
> The secondary mark (Fedora Remix) can provide an avenue for this, but
> it's made for work done entirely outside of the Fedora project
> umbrella. I'd like some way to label projects which are done by Fedora
> developers using Fedora resources and in line with the Fedora foundations
> but which are not part of the traditional OS or infrastructure with all
> of the expectations those things bring.
>
> From a legal standpoint: a) does this make sense and b) what would we
> need to do make it happen?
If the idea is to have a new secondary mark - I would suggest
discussing with the Red Hat legal team. If not, I'm not sure this is
really a legal issue (other than in the sense of refining what
'Fedora' means).
AIUI this was about being able to use the *primary* marks in a
controlled way, but Matthew can correct me if I'm wrong.
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