-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 04 October 2003 07:49 pm, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 01:40:48AM +0200, R Sánchez wrote: > > What it IS: > > * A project that makes avaidable an installer which picks > > those apps from your original redhat iso's. > > > > Really don't see any copyright issues here... > > Copyright issues - NO. Trademark issues - YES, if you call the result > Red Hat Linux. It's simply not Red Hat Linux. From what I've read, it > is a very valuable project to a lot of people, but the result is not > Red Hat Linux. Just to clarify: We don't, and never have, called RULE "Red Hat Linux". We do however call it an installer for Red Hat Linux. Quite some time ago, I asked about this on the Anaconda-devel list. Here is a short snip from the mail detailing both my question and an answer from Red Hat's Matt Wilson: (The full text is available in the anaconda-devel list archives.) I am not a lawyer, I don't think Matt is a lawyer, this shouldn't be relied upon as a legal opinion, etc.... On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 12:21:40AM -0500, Michael Fratoni wrote: [...] > So, my question is... > Is this "fair use" or a trademark violation? Obviously, for the past > year > that I've been working on this, I've been operating on the assumption > that this is fair use. With the recent discussion, it seems prudent to > get some clarification on Red Hat's position. Given that I expect to > make > exactly $0.00 on this project over it's lifetime, I'd hate to have to > defend a trademark violation claim. To which Matt replied: Since your project uses original (unmodified) Red Hat Linux CDs or other install media, and since it's not a commercial endeavor, this should be fine. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0|9 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/en/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/f3Omn/07WoAb/SsRAlggAJ46xad0y2sxOMOjiQRuwHVDG/CavQCePM1h 0LSsBEvSveT3LJrtUr9EJCo= =bp4V -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
