Purchasing RHEL AS 4

Ray Van Dolson rvandolson at esri.com
Thu Sep 6 16:42:00 UTC 2007


On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 12:36:34PM -0400, Virden, Larry W. wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Van Dolson
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> > It's basically a RH clone built from Red Hat's own SRPM files with the
> copyrights removed.  
> 
> Do you mean that literally - they modify files to remove the copyrights?
> 
> Surely that isn't legal...
> 

IANAL, perhaps trademarks would have been the correct term.

In any case, no it's not illegal.

RH takes most of their software from other sources as well you know.

Ray




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