Re: Verifying Fedora from unofficial remixes that have removed the Fedora trademarks

["Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:14:22AM -0700, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:00:41AM -0400, Tom spot Callaway wrote:
> > 
> > We can encourage Fedora Remixes to list themselves on a wiki page, but I
> > do not think we need to require this. I do not think it is in the
> > interest of anyone to make it any more difficult for someone to make a
> > derivative work or remix of Fedora.
> 
> I could see a web application that made it easy for remixers to
> provide all sorts of information about what, where, how, why, who,
> when, and so forth.  Even more, I could see an active special interest
> group in Fedora that attracted remixers by giving them reasons to be
> involved.  A sort-of meta-community of remixers, who themselves might
> be the tip of many thousands of remix users.
> 
> The concern is, anything that is automatic without opt-in is going to
> need a HUGE amount of visibility to the Fedora community.  People are
> wary of being tracked and reported on, so they would have to know
> early what was being tracked, why, how, how it was aggregated,
> anonymized, and so forth.  All of that decided, openly, before a
> single line of code need be written.
[...snip...]

In fact, opt-out solutions may be expressly forbidden in some
locations, or may require complex contortions of shrink-wrapped
agreements that we're loathe to create in Fedora.

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