About packaging Zotero (trademarked name) standalone for Fedora (was: About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora)

2012-04-30 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi, I'm reposting this e-mail, slightly edited and with a much more clear subject, highlighting the issue. Hi, Zotero is a referencing tool that helps the user collecting, maintaining and generating citations from research papers and so on. Since version 3.0, Zotero has also been available as

Re: About packaging Zotero (trademarked name) standalone for Fedora (was: About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora)

2012-04-30 Thread Rex Dieter
Ilyes Gouta wrote: What's the position of Fedora regarding using the same trademarked program names (even if the source code is under an open source license) ? There's lots of software in fedora already with names that are trademarked, so that alone is no cause for concern. -- rex --

Re: About packaging Zotero (trademarked name) standalone for Fedora (was: About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora)

2012-04-30 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 07:47:32AM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: Ilyes Gouta wrote: What's the position of Fedora regarding using the same trademarked program names (even if the source code is under an open source license) ? There's lots of software in fedora already with names that are

Re: About packaging Zotero (trademarked name) standalone for Fedora (was: About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora)

2012-04-30 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi, Thanks Rex for the heads up :) Yes, the goal is to just package the software, the source code won't likely be changed - so it wouldn't constitute a derivative work (in the sense of a forked source code). @Toshio : Are there specific trademark licensing terms?  I think we'd want to know

Re: About packaging Zotero (trademarked name) standalone for Fedora (was: About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora)

2012-04-30 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Hi, Thanks Rex for the heads up :) Yes, the goal is to just package the software, the source code won't likely be changed - so it wouldn't constitute a derivative work (in the sense of a forked source code). @Toshio : Are

Re: About packaging Zotero (trademarked name) standalone for Fedora (was: About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora)

2012-04-30 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Alright, I'm then proceeding with the packaging. I've opened this ticket with the Fedora Packaging Committee. I don't know that it belongs there but next time we meet we'll discuss it and send it to a different group if that's what

Re: About packaging Zotero (trademarked name) standalone for Fedora (was: About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora)

2012-04-30 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi, On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Alright, I'm then proceeding with the packaging. I've opened this ticket with the Fedora Packaging Committee.  I don't know that it belongs there but

Re: About packaging Zotero (trademarked name) standalone for Fedora (was: About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora)

2012-04-30 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi, On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Ilyes Gouta ilyes.go...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Toshio Kuratomi a.bad...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Ilyes Gouta wrote: Alright, I'm then proceeding with the packaging. I've opened this

About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora

2012-04-29 Thread Ilyes Gouta
Hi, Zotero is a referencing tool that helps the user collecting, maintaining and generating citations from research papers and so on. Since version 3.0, Zotero has also been available as a standalone executable (previously a Firefox plugin) based on the XULRunner runtime; and I'm thinking about

Re: About packaging Zotero standalone for Fedora

2012-04-29 Thread nomnex
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:29:19 +0100 Ilyes Gouta ilyes.go...@gmail.com wrote: Since version 3.0, Zotero has also been available as a standalone executable (previously a Firefox plugin) based on the XULRunner runtime; and I'm thinking about packaging it for Fedora. User's feedback only. That's