rpmfusion based spin

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Wed Aug 27 06:05:45 CEST 2008


On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:11 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> KH KH wrote:
> > I don't know if Thorsten ever mention such "spin" but having both
> > rpmfusion and fedora on the same media is a very hard legal issue.
> > Actually that's even not possible at all without removing the name
> > Fedora from such spin. (meaning removing artworks and some others
> > packages i don't remember)
> As Jeroen van Meeuwen, this is not a big deal technically as you make it 
> out to be. Sure, we have to make some changes but generic-logos makes it 
> easy to do the rebranding. If there are other issues, we will deal with 
> them as we come across them. Part of my interest in this effort is as a 
> test case for the tools and fleshing out new trademark guidelines in 
> progress for Fedora.  We can't use Fedora infrastructure or call the 
> spin Fedora but that is already well known.

I can certainly try to help provide some insight into things based on my
own experiences doing a non-Fedora-branded respin... (MythDora 5 being
essentially Fedora 8 + multimedia bits and all, with a Fedora 9 or
10-based version currently in the works).

--jarod




More information about the rpmfusion-developers mailing list