On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:46 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 22 Jul 2008, Smruti wrote: >> 1. Is it legal for someone to distribute a Redhat Enterprise Linux >> copy that he bought from Redhat without any Redhat agreement or >> restrictions? If yes, than again I get back to my old question which >> is how will he get the distro. > > IANAL, but it's legal to re-distribute RHEL since RH relies on trademark > rather than copyright to protect its operating systems. So you can > re-distribute it, but your recipient can't use it since s/he would be > violating Red Hat's trademarks by doing so. > > Perhaps someone from RH on this list could give us accurate information? >
Well, since everyone else differs on this, I'll take my words back. I might be wrong in assuming that it was legal to distribute RHEL. -- http://nomadicrider.com/ _______________________________________________ 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/
