[Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content

[subsolar at subsolar.org (Paul)]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 06:59 -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> Not necessarily.  The large corporations pay the search engines to 
> ensure that they come up higher on the response lists.
> 
> I understand that RedHat is trying to protect their income.  After all, 
> why pay for RHEL if CentOS is free?  I basically have two questions that 
> I need to find a good IP attorney to clarify for me:

You buy RHEL because you want/need support ... simple as that.

> 1) If CentOS is, in fact, a re-compile clone of RHEL with RH's 
> permission (as per the GPL), then how can they legally require that 
> CentOS not disclose that fact?
> 2) Is it legal to restrict others from linking to your website?

For #2 it's been my understanding that linking to a website is always
allow http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35306,00.html

> I think RH's going a bit overboard, as there really was no confusion as 
> to whether or not RH was supporting CentOS.

I agree, I'm becomming a frustrated with them and this issue.

Paul