Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:21:19 +0000, WipeOut
<wipe_out@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a question that may or may not have come up before... Not wanting
to start a flame war but its something that I was asked and didn't have
an answer to..
Is RHEL allowed to be freely distributed and installed on as many PC's
as you like as is the case with other GPL distro's??
the code is licensed under various open source license. so yes the
code is freely redistributable. redhat has trademark restrictions so
anyone redistributing it will have to strip off redhat names and
trademarks from the end product which is basically what rebuild clones
like centos(.org) does.
the trademark restrictions are necessary for two things
* prevent confusion
* to protect the trademark from being diluated and lost
Ok.. So the simple answer to the question is that RHEL is
redistributable provided the RedHat trademarks are removed meaning that
a copy (copied CD or ISO image) of original RHEL is not permitted to be
redistributed because the RedHat trademarks would still be in place..
Does that sound about right?
Thanks
