On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 23:25, David Holden wrote: > 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. This is correct, but it means you have to do work with the package before you can redistribute it, which isn't really in keeping with the letter or spirit of the licences involved. > http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page5.html > which seems to indicate that they respect the GPL Well, they say they don't prevent modification, which is true, but they do (to an extent) enforce it, which is just as bad. > 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? That's correct, but SuSE has had licencing issues for a long time now. YaST itself is not Free Software, for example, which means you have to be very careful about how and when you redistribute SuSE - this is why you don't see it available in a 'cheap' edition, unlike RedHat. Cheers, Alex.
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