On Wednesday 30 October 2002 06:26, Törrönen, Paul-Erik wrote: > > Then, i have another question : > > Is it legal ?! to replace occurences of "Redhat " with my > > own distro name ? > > IANAL > > Actually it is required according to their guidlines: > > http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/guidelines.html > > You can reuse/alter any GPL/LGPL licensed code as long as you > follow the guidelines set by the license. > > > As it is Opensource, can i create a distribution which contains > > my own name in all places where Redhat is? > > In essence yes, provided that you follow the guidelines of > the license. There was some discussion about this some weeks > ago on this list, see the archives: > > https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/anaconda-devel-list/2002-October/threa >d .html I believe there is at least one package (redhat-logos) that must be removed from your distribution. Check all of the packages in your distribution to see what kind of License they have. -- Gene
