A Red Hat process judicial against Daniel Pocock regarding the violation of the Fedora trademark in the domain WeMakeFedora.org, where criticism regarding Fedora project members and Red Hat was published. Red Hat representatives demanded the transfer of domain rights to the company, as it violates their registered trademark, but the court sided with the defendant and ruled to maintain the domain rights with the current owner.
The court pointed out that according to the information published on the WeMakeFedora.org site, the author's activity falls under fair use of the trademark, as the name Fedora is used by the defendant to identify the theme of the site, where criticism of Red Hat is published. The site itself is non-commercial, and its author is not trying to present it as a product of Red Hat's activities or mislead users.
Daniel Pocock was previously among the developers of Fedora and Debian and maintained several packages, but due to conflict, he came into confrontation with the community, began trolling some members, and published criticism mostly aimed at enforcing a code of conduct, intervening in community life, and promoting various initiatives by social justice activists.
For example, Daniel tried to draw attention to the actions of Molly de Blanc, who he believed, under the guise of promoting a code of conduct, was bullying those who disagreed with her point of view and attempted to manipulate the behavior of community members (Molly is the author of an open letter against Stallman). For his sarcastic remarks, Daniel Pocock was blocked by projects such as Debian, Fedora, FSF Europe, Alpine Linux, and FOSDEM, but continued his attacks on his websites. Red Hat tried to seize one of his sites under the guise of trademark violation, but the court sided with Daniel.
Fonte: opennet.ru
