https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1433617
Tom "spot" Callaway <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] Blocks|182235 (FE-Legal) | --- Comment #11 from Tom "spot" Callaway <[email protected]> --- Sorry for the long delay on this one. It seems like the concern was around the use of the NFL list of profanity. From a copyright perspective, a list of words is not copyrightable, unless it represent “an original selection or arrangement of facts”. This is why the Phone Book is not copyrightable, but the Merriam Webster dictionary is. Obviously, this NFL list is somewhere in the middle, but I'm inclined to believe that it falls on the Phone Book side, since I could probably pull in a middle-schooler and generate the same list. From a trademark perspective, using the NFL's name to refer to their list is probably fair use, though, the NFL is notoriously litigious. I might suggest that upstream consider dropping the use of that mark, since it doesn't really add anything to the list of profanities, but it's fine to include in Fedora as-is. Lifting FE-Legal. Referenced Bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=182235 [Bug 182235] Fedora Legal Tracker -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
