+++ Raj Mathur [22/07/08 18:46 +0530]: >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? >
Right, I would also like to know, that since the application themselves are GPLed, is using the trademark argument a mechanism to subvert the rights given in the licence itself? I think the Debian folks had a long talk with the Firefox people on something similar before going the whole Iceweasel way. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net _______________________________________________ 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/
