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Re: [Sheflug] Pink Tie Linux 8.0

On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 21:26, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 20:14, Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
> > What changes have RedHat made which takes away Open Source status.
> 
> RedHat is less than Free Software because when you receive it, you can't
> just copy it if you like - it is a trademark issue, but it prevents
> people sharing the software.
> 
> "Pink Tie" gets around it by replacing all the trademarked packages.
> Thus, if you receive Pink Tie you are assured it's Free Software and you
> can treat it as such - i.e., share it with people, change it, give
> people your changes, etc.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alex.



I think its fair enough redhat protect their trademark, i.e. you cant
distribution redhat software using redhat trademarks, this does not
prevent you repackaging redhat software under GPL without using redhat
trademarks.



as to this chap not getting a response to issues on trademarks redhat do
give quite detailed description of this at


http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/


in particular 

http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page5.html



which seems to indicate that they respect the GPL



I have to say though that redhat do seem to be doing a lot these days
things that make them unpopular at the moment..


By the way is it true that SUSE don't allow you to download ISOs for
their distribution and isn't this a little more annoying, at least I can
(for the moment) do this with redhat?

 dave.

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