imayes on Wed, 23 Oct 2002 14:20:04 -0400


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Re: Re: [PLUG] Distributing Red Hat


Have we straightened out the RedHat tour yet? It looks as though a press release has been done about it on LinuxToday.

Iman Mayes

> 
> From: Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>
> Date: 2002/10/23 Wed AM 08:24:34 CDT
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Distributing Red Hat
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:16:59AM -0400, Matthew Ozor wrote:
> > I believe the ISO's are taken right from the same CD's Redhat sells. You can
> > copy and sell them but only to cover the cost of production and shipping.
> > You can't sell copies for $50 but $10 is normally ok. Check out eBay there
> > is a bunch of people selling copies of different distributions. Some even
> > sell beta versions.
> 
> No, everything's GPL, so you can sell it for whatever price someone will
> pay you.  The only thing to note is that Red Hat Software, Inc. has
> asserted their trademark rights over the "Red Hat" mark, which is why
> there are restrictions on the redistribution of the software if it still
> contains any of their marks, especially if it's been modified.
> 
> See also:
> http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page5.html
> http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page6.html
> And various other pages linked from
> <http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/guidelines.html>.
> 
> -- 
> Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
> "They that can give up  essential  liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."        -- Benjamin Franklin
> 
> 

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