Matt Wilson wrote: Hello, i will put a few more wood to the fire i guess but this is needed since many people on this list are building distributions and probably some make/will make profit of them, this legal stuff should be discussed and redhat's view should be clarified for all.
On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:06:17AM +0800, John wrote:I am assuming Matt speaks with some authority; at the least, what he says is consistent with how I understand the Red Hat guidelines. More, he's in a better position than you and I to clarify the matter by checking with others in Red Hat who do know.I've worked with the trademark and licensing issue at Red hat for some time. Final authority lies with our legal council of course. I am not a lawyer, but I do my best to fully understand the current policy, discuss it with our legal council when questions like this arise, and address concerns.
Since the contributor's of list from redhat itself does not include disclaimer or descriptive signatures, i am not sure if they are spokepersons involved with legal issues or technical people also interested in legal related stuff. I am asking
this out of curiosity. If this was talked before i have missed it.
While I enjoy people who are not lawyers debating legal issuesIt's not just legal, moral issues are relevant too. Red Hat's profitting from people like you and me who've been on these lists for agesm helping out, and at the same time seeking to prevent us from profitting from Red Hat's contributions.Our technical contributions are fully available for you to profit from (since they're GPLed). Our brand and trademarks are not, nor can they be and retain their value and enforceability.
There was something i believe it's really wondered by many, and this is the high time to ask. It's about the redhat advance server and other high priced products. Does redhat contribute all its implementations to the free software world, or does it keep some for itself? shortly is rhas a gnu gpl linux? Is the high price tag only for the support offered? I am not taking a side here i just wonder. Afaik, only the srpms are available for download in redhat ftp and its mirrors but a cd image is not available anywhere. If i have the rhas box set do i have have permission to distribute its copies?
I will be glad to hear about this. Thank you
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