Is this the information you are refering to Mr. Herrold? http://www.pnaelv.net/ http://www.pnaelv.net/letter_body/ /Mats On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Dag Wieers <dag at centos.org> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, R P Herrold wrote: > > > On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Dag Wieers wrote: > >> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, R P Herrold wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Vitor Afonso Strabello wrote: > >>> > >>>> Can I post a link to the "prominent North American > >>>> Enterprise Linux vendor" about it also? > >>> > >>>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0397.html > >>> > >>> Counsel for the PNAELV expressly asked that CentOS NOT 'deep > >>> link' into their site. > >> > >> Do we have the complete text available ? > > > > yes -- I see no reason to re-debate their position here, as it > > simply picks open old wounds to no good end, and have provided > > a link to you privately. > > If I read their position, they requested us to remove unauthorized use of > RED HAT marks as well as improper use of Red Hat's IP, including within > our web site metatags. > > They did object the use of their trademark in combination of linking to > Red Hat's site, but they do not request from us to remove any links. Just > the use of the trademark. > > So what we're already doing from bugs.centos.org and the security > advisories does not seem to be a problem. Linking does not seem to be an > issues to them according to what you send me. > > And wrt. the improper and unauthorized use of the trademark, there are > ways to protect you from that (using the TM sign everywhere with a > disclaimer). > > As long as we take proper care to make it absolutely clear we are not Red > Hat there should not be a problem. That together with a formal request for > revalidation of the website/wiki etc... should help us as well. > > By the way, X/OS answered their counsel that as soon as Oracle is > complying, he would comply to the same rules as well. And never heard back > :) > > -- > -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-docs mailing list > CentOS-docs at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/attachments/20090104/97130ff7/attachment.html
