trademark is not supposed to be used to suppress criticism

Posted Sep 2, 2009 8:15 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313)
In reply to: trademark is not supposed to be used to suppress criticism by jspaleta
Parent article: Fedora's trademark license agreement

damaging in trademark terms would be someone creating a new distro, calling it 'fedora', and filling it with spyware (or just making it not work)

having a website that formerly hosted news about the real fedora distro go offline because the person who had been writing it moved to a different distro should not be, but this is explictly called out as one of the things they want to be able to defend against by taking over someone else's domain.

if they consider a new site going dark to be 'damaging' to the project, I don't see how they could consider a news site that started bashing them to not be.

trademark is not supposed to be used to suppress criticism

Posted Sep 2, 2009 9:03 UTC (Wed) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

What about if a well known end user facing site goes offline and gets purchased by a third party and used for porn? If it a site simply goes offline, it is much less of a problem.

Watching the domains

Posted Sep 2, 2009 19:58 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

Someone at Red Hat would have to set up a cron job to run Rick Moen's domain-check script, then take action if a Fedora-related site is about to lose its domain.