The issue of Red Hat's trademark policy has been raised on fedora-devel list and both Alan Cox and a few other people has forwarded the issue to the legal department. There are a few hackers there that don't like to put their job under trademarked software like redhat-config-*.
behdad On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Hi list, > > I downloaded Fedora, and tried to install it on a box of mine (well - > VMWare to be precise). The problem with installing it was not technical. > The problem was that Fedora now includes an End User License Agreement. > That's right, folks. > > I may be paranoid, but to me an EULA means that someone is trying to > apply contract laws where copyright laws (or, in this case, Trademark > laws) can't get them what they want. I don't like such behaviour. > > Already as things are today, images prepared for the CDs for the Haifux > installation party had to be debated long and hard before we could > produce them. I'm afraid that things will only become worse with the > EULA. As such, I'm left with a very bad taste in my mouth. > > It seems to me that RedHat has drifted away major parts of the spirit of > free software (happy hacking), and into the land of "let's make much > money fast". While perfectly acceptable for a commercial company, it > doesn't feel right for me to promote anti-hacking practices within the > community. > > Personally, I will try to avoid the use and promotion of any Linux > distribution covered by a RedHat trademark. I will also advise all of > you to be careful before duplicating any such CDs. Most benign uses are > still ok, but just barely so. > > I guess what I'm trying to say is this - I did not move to free software > so that I need to consult a lawer for every thing I do. > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
