Dear Praveen, Thank you for participating in the debate.Are you educating the open FOSS community that any body can club all individual GPL software into one Mega software collection under one umbrella using anaconda or Yum which is also GPL and make non-free commercial software=RHEL . Still simple club all GPL = non free commercial .Please educate me .Is it for this day Foss was born .Community make GPL Software and commercial entities take benefit with simple trick .This debate shall continue until, we have clear idea how to defeat GPL violators.
M.S.Yatnatti KPN UNLIMITED Corporate Office:No.18/6, Executive chambers, Cunningham Road, Bangalore – 560052. WEBSITE WWW.KPNUNLIMITED.ORG --- On Thu, 10/2/08, Praveen A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Praveen A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 9:56 AM 2008/9/30 Sudhanwa Jogalekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It is really unfortunate to know that people of CEO level are not able > to understand the Trade Marks and Licenses. I believe what you meant was Trademarks and Copyrights. You can have Copyright License (GPL is one such) and Trademark License (what RHEL has). Copyrights are used to protect software and a copyright license is considered Free (as in Freedom) if it allows everyone who receive a copy of the program to use, study, change and distribute (modified or unmodified) copies of that program. All the components of RHEL is Free Software. But the collection distributed by Red Hat in CDs or DVDs also have a license. You can think of it as a collection of poems in the public domain. Even though individual poems remain in the public domain the collector has a copyright over the collection. Now trademarks are something different. It is used to protect brands. It ensures that you get what you think you are getting. RHEL name and logos are trademarked by Red Hat. That means if you see RHEL with Red Hat logos you can be sure it is from Red Hat. In the same way Mozilla Corporation own trademarks to Firefox. You need a license from the owner of the trademark (in the same way as copyright) to use that brand. CentOS removed the name and logos from RHEL and is distributing the same collection. In the same way Debian changed Firefox name to Iceweasel. Trademarks does not restricts the Freedoms mentioned in the Free Software definition. " Btw please avoid using the term ipr. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html It implies either you are confused or you want to confuse everyone. Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
