Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Can you give proper copyright credit on the Linux kernel
> without the name Linux? A quick grep through the source
> tree shows the word is used thousands of times.
If this was the case, CentOS couldn't exist.
Heck, Red Hat Enterprise Linux couldn't exist.
This is trademark. It's about a "mark" in "trade."
If you do not use the mark in the trade, you are fine.
> If there are restrictions on the usage, how do you
reconcile
> that with the GPL requirement that prohibits additional
> restrictions?
Read your GPL more closely. GPL requires the software be
functional without additional requirements. You do not need
a trademark for it to be functional. The GPL does not
prohibit bundling of other software that has restrictions, as
long as the software does not require it to function.
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