On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Orna Agmon wrote: > > >On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Alon Altman wrote: > > > > > > > >>Hi, > >>The CD designs for the Linux day are available at > >>http://www.haifux.org/newcomers/cd-logo/ > >> > >>Alon > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >Very pretty. I like the updates design more, though. But- what about RH > >wishing people to avoid the usage of the trademark RedHat when > >re-distributing it? > > > Tux's red hat may be seen to infringe. As far as I understood, however, > they don't own any relevant trademarks in Israel. IANALetc. > > I'll forward this to Haim to check. > > > Is this thing already in order? > >Or does this relate only to the Enterprise edition? > > > > > It relates, as far as RH are concerned, to anything under the sun that > even remotely resembels their distro.Whether that is actually > enforecable is a different matter. > > Personally, I don't mind keeping things in the grey area (where our > understanding of trademark law says wer'e ok to do it, while their > guidelines say wer'e not) just so we can see whether they will sue. > > My limited understanding of trademark law says that the art for discs 1 > through 3 should be ok, because we are truthfully giving them unmodified > RedHat 9 discs (and therefor RH cannot legally stop us from claiming > that they are RH 9 discs). The use of the red hat on the update disc may > be outside this scope, because it was compiled by us. There isn't much we can do about it now, perhaps we should add an inner cover to the CD(s) which say something like "redhat is a trademark of... This CD was compiled by haifa linux club..." Meir. > >Orna. > > > > > Shachar > > -- > Shachar Shemesh > Open Source integration consultant > Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) > To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
