Red Hat is suing Daniel Pocock for infringing the Fedora trademark on the WeMakeFedora.org domain name, which was critical of Fedora and Red Hat contributors. Representatives of Red Hat demanded that the company transfer the rights to the domain, as it violates the registered trademark, but the court sided with the defendant and ruled that the current owner retained the rights to the domain.
The court held that according to the information published on the WeMakeFedora.org website, the author's activity falls within the category of fair use of the trademark, since the name Fedora is used by the defendant to identify the subject matter of the site that publishes criticism of Red Hat. The site itself is non-commercial and its author is not trying to pass it off as the result of Red Hat activities or mislead users.
Daniel Pocock was a former Fedora developer and Debian and was involved in maintaining a number of packages, but as a result of the conflict, he entered into a confrontation with the community, began trolling some participants and publishing criticism, mainly directed against the imposition of a code of conduct, interference in the life of the community and the promotion of various initiatives carried out by activists achieving social justice.
For example, Daniel tried to draw attention to the activities of Molly de Blanc, who, in his opinion, under the guise of promoting a code of conduct, was harassing those who disagreed with her point of view and attempting to manipulate the behavior of community members (Molly is the author of an open letter against Stallman). For his caustic statements, Daniel Pocock was banned from projects such as Debian, Fedora, FSF Europe, Alpine Linux and FOSDEM, but continued the attacks on his websites. Red Hat attempted to seize one of his sites under the guise of trademark infringement, but the court sided with Daniel.
Source: opennet.ru
