On legal grounds they have to object. If not they lose the rights to the
trademark if they ever need to go to court to fight a case. Their lawyers
would be the one jumping up and down and for good reason. They have to keep
their trademark (or lose the rights to it by simply not objecting others
usage of it)
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Tony Wicks
Sent: 15 February 2005 02:01
To: CentOS discussion and information list
Subject: Re: [Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content
For many years I have run the primary Redhat Mirror server in New Zealand,
about seven years ago I registered redhat.co.nz (ftp.redhat.co.nz still
works) and this is what most people used to access the site (that is what
was listed on the Redhat mirror list on their website). about 3 years ago
all of a sudden Redhat started jumping up and down saying that
(understandably) I couldn't use their trademark so I changed it to something
else. They were really quite nice about it in a gruff sort of way (ok, they
gave me tshirts and hats) and I haven't heard from them since. I would not
assume because they want to make sure they are the only ones authorising the
use of their trademarks that they have any more sinister intentions.
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