Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by cernocky » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 1:23 PM UTC

Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation
fedorarepository.org

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by fodmap » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 1:39 PM UTC

To avoid misunderstandings, this repository is about a project at Cornell University named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA), not a Red Hat one.

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by macintux » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 1:46 PM UTC

fodmap wrote: post #2

To avoid misunderstandings, this repository is about a project at Cornell University named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA), not a Red Hat one.

And predates Fedora by about 6 years.

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 1:49 PM UTC

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Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by cevn » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 1:58 PM UTC

macintux wrote: post #3

fodmap wrote: post #2

To avoid misunderstandings, this repository is about a project at Cornell University named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA), not a Red Hat one.

And predates Fedora by about 6 years.

I was ready to be mad in the comments, now I'm mad but in the other direction.

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by RickJWagner » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 1:59 PM UTC

fodmap wrote: post #2

To avoid misunderstandings, this repository is about a project at Cornell University named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA), not a Red Hat one.

Thanks for that explanation. Totally threw me for a minute.

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by phkahler » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 2:02 PM UTC

macintux wrote: post #3

fodmap wrote: post #2

To avoid misunderstandings, this repository is about a project at Cornell University named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA), not a Red Hat one.

And predates Fedora by about 6 years.

Right or wrong, who owns the trademark?

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by tsak » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 2:07 PM UTC

phkahler wrote: post #7

macintux wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And predates Fedora by about 6 years.

Right or wrong, who owns the trademark?

The hat!

> The term fedora was in use as early as 1891.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora#History)

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by fodmap » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 2:11 PM UTC

phkahler wrote: post #7

macintux wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And predates Fedora by about 6 years.

Right or wrong, who owns the trademark?

Both. '...all parties settled on a co-existence agreement that stated that the Cornell-UVA project could use the name when clearly associated with open source software for digital object repository systems and that Red Hat could use the name when it was clearly associated with open source computer operating systems.'

https://fedorarepository.org/about/our-history/

Re: Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

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Post by zoobab » Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 2:14 PM UTC

FTP was better.