Saurabh Nanda wrote: >>Does anyone know if what they are doing is legal or not ? > > > I don't know the exact licensing agreement for SuSE Linux, but Redhat > has something like this: > > All their work (or almost all) is GPLed. That means you get the four > freedoms on the code. BUT the trademarks and logos are not freely > distributable. The extract from RHL 9's EULA sums it up - > > "THE "RED HAT" TRADEMARK, THE "BLUECURVE" TRADEMARK AND RED HAT'S > SHADOW MAN LOGO ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF RED HAT, INC. IN THE > UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES. WHILE THIS LICENSE AGREEMENT ALLOWS > YOU TO COPY, MODIFY AND DISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE, IT DOES NOT PERMIT > YOU TO DISTRIBUTE THE SOFTWARE UTILIZING RED HAT'S TRADEMARKS." > > So, you may copy the entire CD and redistribute it but you can't call > it a Redhat product. You have to remove all Redhat logos and > trademarks before redistribtuion. This effectively nullifies any brand > equity that you might get from redistributing a 'Redhat product' per > se.
I think certain trademark and other contractual obligations also ensure that you cannot even copy a RHEL distribution for your own use(not just redistribution). In other words, you can only install RHEL on the number of machines you have licence for. While individual packages can be freely copied, the total distribution is supposed to be under a separate independent compilation effort, which Redhat is restricting to paid customers. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya * Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com * Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
