On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Praveen A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/9/30 Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> It is really unfortunate to know that people of CEO level are not able >> to understand the Trade Marks and Licenses. > > I believe what you meant was Trademarks and Copyrights. You can have > Copyright License (GPL is one such) and Trademark License (what RHEL > has). >
No. I meant Trademarks and Licenses. > Copyrights are used to protect software and a copyright license is > considered Free (as in Freedom) if it allows everyone who receive a > copy of the program to use, study, change and distribute (modified or > unmodified) copies of that program. All the components of RHEL is Free > Software. > > But the collection distributed by Red Hat in CDs or DVDs also have a > license. You can think of it as a collection of poems in the public > domain. Even though individual poems remain in the public domain the > collector has a copyright over the collection. > > Now trademarks are something different. It is used to protect brands. > It ensures that you get what you think you are getting. > > RHEL name and logos are trademarked by Red Hat. That means if you see > RHEL with Red Hat logos you can be sure it is from Red Hat. In the > same way Mozilla Corporation own trademarks to Firefox. You need a > license from the owner of the trademark (in the same way as copyright) > to use that brand. CentOS removed the name and logos from RHEL and is > distributing the same collection. In the same way Debian changed > Firefox name to Iceweasel. > > Trademarks does not restricts the Freedoms mentioned in the Free > Software definition. > That is some good explanation useful to the OP. > Btw please avoid using the term ipr. > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html > > It implies either you are confused or you want to confuse everyone. > That is another good pointer to understand things. But people may or may not agree to all the views mentioned there. "Intellectual Property" is a generic term and covers many things. I am neither confused nor trying to confuse others about IPRs. IPR is a complex subject and I will not get into it on the list. Regards, -Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~~ www.sudhanwa.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/
