Re: Who's moderating this forum?

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On 07/19/2010 02:23 AM, Marcel Rieux wrote:
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> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:20 AM, Darr  wrote:
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>     On Saturday, 17 July, 2010 @23:44 zulu, Marcel Rieux scribed:
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>     > Where can I read the board's position on the name copyright?
>
>     You're mixing nomenclatures...
>     you can't copyright a name - names can be trademarked, though.
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>
> Right. A little confusion here.

That's a pretty large confusion if you ask me.

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>     If you look closely on fedoraproject.org
>     <http://fedoraproject.org> you might notice
>     the little (tm) mark next to the fedora name,
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>
> If there's a tm on Fedora's name, how come everybody is using it? If
> Fedora and fedoraproject is trademarked, is it lawful to use fedorafaq
> or fedorasolved?

There are two things involved here.  Fair use and trademark licenses.

Rahul

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