Fedora is now a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat will defend this trademark in order to protect the integrity of . The rules for using the Fedora trademark will be generally more permissive than the rules for using the Red Hat trademarks. The separate name and trademark are necessary in order to have different rules for using the trademarks. The rules for using the "Fedora" trademark are available at http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/.
Red Hat's official "Red Hat" has been the Red Hat Fedora made by the New York Hat Company for many years.
Fedora Linux was started by Warren Togami as a community for building high quality RPM packages for Red Hat Linux. As Red Hat started to build a community-based distribution, our goals were so similar that we decided to merge our projects. During the months it will take to fully merge the projects, we link to each others' web sites. Red Hat would like to thank Fedora Linux project developers for proposing the merger and committing time to making the merger a reality.
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