Some packages have assets that are trademarked. Those trademarks may or may not have explicit licenses from upstream. They may or may not have upstreams who have expressed a desire to assert their trademark rights. As packagers start to run across more of these we need to decide whether to package them with the trademarked assets, how to handle acls for the packages, and what additional procedures packagers need to follow.
This hasn't come up to FPC before. It may not be an FPC decision. But we're the next group to meet so I'm opening it here and we can decide whether to handle it, handle part of it, or where to forward it to. Groups to coordinate with (or handle this instead of us) could be Fedora Legal (spot) or FESCo.
I know of three specifics:
I would propose to reject this ticket, because legal decisions are the FPC's matter.
Independently from this, in my private opinion, all packages provided by fedora must be "free", i.e. copyable, modificable, free for commercial use etc. Restictive trademarks are orthogonal to this,
Replying to [comment:1 corsepiu]:
I would propose to reject this ticket, because legal decisions are the FPC's matter. Did you mean "not the FPC's matter"?
Did you mean "not the FPC's matter"?
If so, that's fine but I would like us to figure out who to send this on to. Since spot's one of the FPC members, it seems like a good place to get feedback from two of the parties and we can decided if we want to send it to FESCo (or the Board.. with your phrasing about packages being copyable, modifyable, and free of use restrictions, it seems less of a technical decision).
WRT rubygem-passenger, I don't think that status https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470696#c129 is enough free, and don't think that this is acceptable on Fedora.
Replying to [comment:2 toshio]:
Replying to [comment:1 corsepiu]: I would propose to reject this ticket, because legal decisions are the FPC's matter. Did you mean "not the FPC's matter"? Sure. Sorry, typo. If so, that's fine but I would like us to figure out who to send this on to. IMO, Fedora legal. They should decide whether a package legally complies to the "Fedora freedoms".
I would propose to reject this ticket, because legal decisions are the FPC's matter. Did you mean "not the FPC's matter"? Sure. Sorry, typo.
Did you mean "not the FPC's matter"? Sure. Sorry, typo.
If so, that's fine but I would like us to figure out who to send this on to. IMO, Fedora legal. They should decide whether a package legally complies to the "Fedora freedoms".
Fedora Legal should own this. Closing here.
I've opened a ticket for Fedora Legal -- https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-legal/ticket/16
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