RHEL redistribution..

[Kenneth Kalmer]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:59:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram
<rahulsundaram at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 11:21:19 +0000, WipeOut
> <wipe_out at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > I have a question that may or may not have come up before... Not wanting
> > to start a flame war but its something that I was asked and didn't have
> > an answer to..
> >
> > Is RHEL allowed to be freely distributed and installed on as many PC's
> > as you like as is the case with other GPL distro's??
> 
> the code is licensed under various open source license.  so yes the
> code is freely redistributable. redhat has trademark restrictions so
> anyone redistributing it will have to strip off redhat names and
> trademarks from the end product which is basically what rebuild clones
> like centos(.org) does.

Busy converting a RHEL3 box to centos, thanks for the tip on this one!
Should I report my successes to the list?

> 
> the trademark restrictions are necessary for two things
> 
> * prevent confusion
> * to protect the trademark from being diluated and lost
> 
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> Regards,
> Rahul Sundaram
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