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Acceptable Use

By Red Hat

Red Hat owns the Fedora trademarks, and protects them on behalf of the entire Fedora community. As the trademark owner, Red Hat strives to use the trademarks under the same guidelines as the rest of the community.

By the Fedora Board

The Fedora Board administers trademark guidelines to avoid overly taxing Red Hat's legal resources. The Board approves community regulated use where practical, and serves as the first line of mediation when questions of use arise. The Board refers problems it cannot resolve to Red Hat's legal department through established channels, typically Fedora's legal contact or the FPL.

The Board may use the Fedora trademarks to:

  • name subprojects and other groups or initiatives in the Fedora Project
  • label distributions or spins of software meeting appropriate guidelines
  • refer to the Project and its members, software products, and initiatives in written materials

By the Community at Large

Unregulated

USE CASES:

Personal web sites
Alice wants to indicate her love for Fedora by putting the logo on her personal blog.
Business web sites
Bart wants to offer Fedora media for sale at his computer retail business' web site.
Business cards
Cathy wants to have a Fedora business card for trade shows to indicate she's an Ambassador.
Fedora media
Dirk wants to make homemade labels for official Fedora media he's giving to other people.
Promotional events
Ethel wants to pass out fliers at an open source event and show that Fedora is represented there.

Any Fedora community member may use the Fedora trademarks in the following situations:

  1. On personal web sites, provided that:
    • the site indicates clearly that it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Red Hat or the Fedora Project
      • To pass this test, a site must include some text like "This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by Red Hat, Inc., or the Fedora Project" prominently on any page that includes the Fedora trademarks.
      • If the Fedora trademarks appear in a page header or any area that is designed to be presented on more than one page, than the notice must also be designed to be presented on all of those pages as well. (I.e., if the Fedora marks appear in a site-wide header, the informational text must appear in that header or an identically site-wide footer.)
    • the site does not use visual styling that could be confusing to viewers or visitors as to whether the site is part of Red Hat or the Fedora Project
    • the site does not use the Fedora trademarks to imply endorsement of or affiliation with any goods or services, other than the Fedora Project itself
  2. On business web sites, provided that:
    • the site does not use the Fedora trademarks to imply endorsement of or affiliation with any non-Fedora goods or services
      • It should be OK for sites to use the Fedora trademarks to sell Fedora media.
      • It should be OK for sites to use the Fedora trademarks to point viewers to official Fedora sites
  3. Community members may use the Fedora trademarks on business cards to identify their affiliation with the Fedora Project.
  4. Community members may use the Fedora trademarks to label media containing unaltered copies of official Fedora software.
  5. Community members may use the Fedora trademarks to promote open source events at which they intend to appear as ambassadors, distribute Fedora media, or otherwise represent the project.
    • Must still follow guidelines for presentation, i.e. not mixing Fedora marks with others.

Regulated

By Board Approval

  1. Community members may apply for Board permission to use the "Fedora Upstream" mark (TO BE DESIGNED) and the official Fedora logo on and in conjunction with media derived from Fedora software but which includes other materials, provided that:
  2. Community members may apply for Board permission to use Fedora trademarks on and in conjunction with media that includes only software included in the official repositories
    • The media and any advertising materials indicate clearly that the media is not affiliated with or provided by the Fedora Project
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By Official Trademark License

  1. Community members may apply for a trademark license to use the Fedora trademarks in a domain name
  2. Community members may apply for a trademark license to use the Fedora trademarks on non-software related goods, services, or other entities
    • The Fedora Store (whatever that becomes) should a way to do this through a pre-approved channel. Once the goods are determined to be acceptable, branding should be a given.


Unapproved or Unacceptable Use

  1. Violations of the Logo Usage Guidelines or Trademark Usage Guidelines
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