[Linux-aus] Red Hat

[Chris Samuel]

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Bret Busby wrote:

> An issue involving the use of Red Hat Linux has arisen, where it appears
> that people are no longer allowed to make copies of Red Hat Linux and
> distribute them (eg, making a copy and passing it on to a friend/fellow
> Linux user), and the issue would be good to have clarified by someone
> from Red Hat. It appears and has been suggested, that the current Red
> Hat licensing has abandoned or contravenes the GPL in the apparent
> prohibition from copying and redistributing Red Hat Linux.

NB: I don't work for RedHat, and I'm posting from work, so this has nothing to 
do with VPAC either. :-)

This is a common misunderstanding - the license haven't changed, but a couple 
of the packages provided by Red Hat contained trademarks that cannot be 
redistributed. You are free to replace these trademarks with your own logos, 
etc.

Here's more information on it specifically regarding what's required if you 
want to build binaries from the SRPMS for something like Redhat Advanced 
Server.

http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/2003-September/007691.html

FWIW RMS thinks things like this are legit, BTW.

Chris
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 Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Systems & Network Admin
 Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/
 Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia

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