Quoting Yedidyah Bar-David, from the post of Thu, 27 Jul: > I talked to a rep a few months ago, and he told me I can't e.g. purchase > a license (or subscription, or whatever it's called) for one year, > install a machine with it, then continue using it for more than one > year, because of this trademark thing.
of course he is absolutely and dangerously wrong. the only thing you are not allowed after a year is to get the automatic updates (the RHN will lock you out anyway) > That I will (theoretically) need > to chase each and every mention of any of their trademarks, in any of > the files on the system, and remove it. I didn't feel like arguing, and > did not ask a laywer, but I really don't know if he has any substance in > what he said. it's against both Israeli and American fair use laws. plus, if you notice, when buying an entitlement online you have to click through an EULA. not so when you buy from Matrix, you are not signing any agreements, so even if that part of the EULA was legal (which IMHO it isn't), you are exampt. > You might find some relevant info on e.g. centos.org. They > keep writing there, tens of times, "a prominent North American > Enterprise Linux vendor" instead of RedHat, for this very reason. But > they did not change every occurence of RedHat in the sources themselves, > as far as I could see. they don't remove the copyright notices from things that ARE copywritten by RH but released under GPL, that's exactly according to RH's own instructions. the only things you have to remove are the IP that are not under free license - logos and graphics that are Red Hat's own. -- Undercover brother Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= 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]
