snipped.. On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Read the post by Atanu again. RH cannot prevent you from redistributing > or making copies of the software in RHEL; however they can restrict you > from copying and/or redistributing their trademarked logos and artwork, > and for that reason it is illegal to make copies of or to redistribute > RHEL. > I think I does means, If i do not touch/distribute there artwork and logo, trademark, I can distribute rest of the things with/without modifications !! > > > > So my question is... Can Red Hat enterprise products be really > > > considered as Open Source (as their website claims) > > > > All software that is under FLOSS licences (GPL, BSD, APL, etc.) are > > Opensource. > > > > However there are likely to be several closed packages included (eg. > > nvidia drivers) and these maybe governed by more restricted licences, > > including being restricted to installation on one single cpu and or > > user. > > Again, while the software licences are FOSS, the artwork and logos that > RHEL includes are not. You can copy the software, but you can't copy > the distribution as a while without violating the law (note: trademark > law, NOT copyright law). > > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
