I don't know about SUSE, but RedHat's policy is pretty clear. To redistribute
a RedHat Fedora ISO it must be unchanged, or you must remove all references
to the RedHat and Fedora trademarks[1]. To redistribute RedHat Enterprise
Linux, all references to RedHat's trademarks must be removed[2].
RedHat has a corporate policy to always release everything under the GPL,
thought they will enforce their corporate trademarks (which is important to
maintain corporate brand integrity). This policy is the main reason why I am
such an avid RedHat supporter.
Richard Esplin
[1] http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/guidelines/
[2] http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/guidelines/page5.html
For an example of someone who rolled their own version of RHEL, see
http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/howto.html (pay special attention to the last
section of the howto).
[3] I can't find the corporate policy right on Open Source Licenses right now,
but I remember their CEO mentioning it during a talk at the Marriott School
last year.
On Monday 26 January 2004 18:03, Bryan Murdock wrote:
<snip>
> Actually after reading a little more the rumor seems to be that not all
> the software on the Suse CD's is Free. So maybe the FTP version is all
> Free? I think Redhat and Suse both owe everyone a clear statement on
> what we can and can't do with their ISOs, rpms, download versions, etc.
> I don't know, maybe they have already done this...
>
> Bryan
<snip>
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