Bug 463040 - fedora-release contains trademarks?
Summary: fedora-release contains trademarks?
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fedora-release
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Cantrell
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks: F10Blocker, F10FinalBlocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-21 01:38 UTC by Jeroen van Meeuwen
Modified: 2013-01-10 01:52 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-09-22 21:57:21 UTC
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Description Jeroen van Meeuwen 2008-09-21 01:38:01 UTC
Description of problem:

The fedora-release package carries /etc/fedora-release, /etc/issue and /etc/issue.net, which may still contain trademarks (the "Fedora" brand name), or at least cause the Fedora name to be exposed prominently, in sight (system bootup, mingetty (/etc/issue), etc.).

I'm not sure this is actually a bug, but I wanted to note that all trademarks are supposed to be in fedora-logos.

If showing Fedora on a system that is not Fedora (e.g. removed fedora-logos) is a trademark violation, the contents of these files should be altered or they should move to fedora-logos.

If it is not a trademark violation, then I guess we're OK.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Any fedora-release package

Comment 1 Jesse Keating 2008-09-21 03:58:54 UTC
Probably just oversight on the list of packages to replace when rebranding.  We made an effort to make things depend on 'system-release' rather than 'fedora-release' or 'redhat-release' so that re-branders could provide their own -release file that provides system-release.  I really don't see moving the Fedora Release content into some other package.

Adding spot to the cc.

Comment 2 John Poelstra 2008-09-22 15:35:45 UTC
Adding to F10 blocker as we should resolve this issue (whether it is a bug or not) prior to issuing F10.

Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-09-22 19:31:03 UTC
We can probably resolve this with a "generic-release" package, like we did for generic-logos. I'll whip something up.

Comment 4 Tom "spot" Callaway 2008-09-22 20:36:33 UTC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463293

Comment 5 Jeroen van Meeuwen 2008-09-22 21:13:32 UTC
ausgezeichnet!


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