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

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

> The transferable agreement stipulated that each project must display the following text on their web site: [...]

Looks like Cornell-UVA satisfied this by placing it on their about page. Red Hat on the other hand hid it on a dedicated legalese page nobody will read: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/

Not a good look IMO.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

> 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.'

If it's as worded, I'm surprised Fedora Directory Server didn't end up being a problem for RedHat, as its not an OS, and you could call it a digital object repository system, I guess.

Or maybe thats why they re-branded it as 389 Directory Server?

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

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Wow. Java 11. Looks like a great project for an update. Anybody know where we can get a group of CS students to update the code with a modern toolset? Used to be MIT, Clarkson, Cornell, Berkeley, RIT, etc cranked this stuff out.

https://fedorarepository.org/232540-2/

> Upgrades for over 40 dependency libraries, including upgrading Java 11 to Java 21.

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

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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.

It took me far too long to figure this out from their site, but when I did, the project looked far less interesting.

For a while there, I thought the "been in existence for 20+ years and our users represent an engaged, supportive and invested global community of users focused on sustainability and growth" was the Fedora Project extending their expertise in file organization and distribution to other use cases.

But on the bright side, I now have a link I can use to confuse my students with (to keep them out of their comfort zone and promote deep research).

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

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Wow. Java 11. Looks like a great project for an update. Anybody know where we can get a group of CS students to update the code with a modern toolset? Used to be MIT, Clarkson, Cornell, Berkeley, RIT, etc cranked this stuff out.

Total tangent from the OP, but neat to see RIT listed here (among some excellent universities)! What kind of things has RIT done like this? Just a curious alum.

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

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FTP was better.

FTP is great for the hackers who want to sniff cleartext user passwords over insecure public wifi.

FTPs used to have anonymous logins unless one was on a LAN, so sniffing passwords was not very relevant.
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