On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 00:16:43 AM -0900, John Andersen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Friday 17 November 2006 23:24, M. Fioretti wrote: > > E.g., to get Centos from RHEL you must, more or less, only strip > > and replace all the occurrences of Red Hat strings, logos and > > similar from the sources and recompile. A semi-automatic process. > > Who says you have to do this? Nobody less than Red Hat itself (http://www.redhat.com/about/companyprofile/trademark/) and the Centos developers: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=2 "(CentOS mainly changes packages to remove upstream vendor branding and artwork)" > > Surf on down to your /usr/src/linux/kernel directory and type: > grep -i "copyright" *.c > > Count how many different companies names appear in SUSE's source in This (copyright on the source code or modified versions of it) has NOTHING to do with what I am talking about. Hmm, my fault here, I probably confused you when I said "Red Hat strings". I only meant those with trademark function, not those in the copyright notices. A distribution is more than source code: icons, logos, registered names... If you want to create a new distribution from an existing one you have to do more than just adding or preserving copyright notices to source code. > If any Linux distro was released under the GPL (and they all are), Wrong. Here you are confusing the license on the Linux kernel with the one of everything else shipped in the same DVD. A distro is a software *bundle*, and there are lots of them which bundle GPL and proprietary packages. One of the proofs of this is the fact that the FSF itself only endorses as (entirely) "Free as in Freedom" _some_ Gnu/Linux distributions. Heck, even stiching to SUSE, YAST became GPL only in 2004. > then any of your patented code you insert in your distro is given > free and clear to the community. If you inserted someone elses > code, it would have to come out of every distro, and the community > would jointly arrive at a solution. and here you are confusing copyright with patents. Please re-read my previous messages in this thread. If sw patents were as easy as you seem to imply to neutralize, the whole Novell-MS story would have never happened. Ciao, Marco -- The right way to make everybody love Free Standards and Free Software: http://digifreedom.net/node/73 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
