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_appliances_with_unmodified_Fedora_software > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Virtual_images_or_appliances_with_combinations_of_Fedora_software_with_non-Fedora_or_modified_Fedora_software
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 _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
