Re: Red Hat GPL No Longer Available

["Avery, Kevin" <kevin mlc net>]

  From what I understand, the GPL is still available you just can't use
the words red hat on it right?
  I think they are just trying to protect their copyright, you can't blame them for that. I bet they get all kinds of calls from people who 
have bought a $1.95 CD asking for support because they thought they got 
a good deal on Red Hat. I can just hear the lusers saying, "well it says
redhat right here on the label, you have to support it!"
   Maybe you could call it the blue underwear release or something? Like
someone else said, you can probably get away with listing the website
that you downloaded it from on the CD. That would explain it. 
Good Luck,
Kevin M. Avery

Like someone else said, 

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Robb Sands" <rsands celeritytech com>
Reply-To: <rsands celeritytech com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:21:27 -0400

>HELP!!
>
>I just got off the phone with Amazon.com and Red Hat.com Legal departments
>and guess what the hot-breaking-heart-breaking news is?
>
>You can no longer refer to Red Hat Linux GPL distribution using the words
>Red Hat.  Now it has to be called "I wanna be Microsoft" or "anonymous linux
>6.0" or something similar, since the Red Hat name can no longer appear on
>ANY GPL PRODUCTS or ads.  That's right, the GPL distribution of Red Hat
>Linux can no longer be called Red Hat Linux, it now MUST have a new name.
>No more Red Hat GPL CD's, advertisements, support groups, netnews,
>nothing...
>
>I know this sounds incredibly unbelievable, but the Red Hat GPL distribution
>can no longer be advertised or labelled Red Hat, only the official boxed
>set.  As a linux seller on Amazon.com, I (along with 100 other people) sell
>a GPL version of the distribution formerly known as Red Hat Linux GPL.  We
>now will be required to say we are selling 'blah' Linux 6.0 and will have to
>remove any labelling on products referring to the GPL Linux Distribution.
>
>How will people know they are getting Red Hat Linux GPL if it can't carry
>the name?  You guess, because I haven't a clue...
>
>Of course the legal counsel rep, and only person in the entire Red Hat
>organization who can respond, David Shumannfang, is currently on vacation
>and won't be available for a week (9-7-99).  Basically we are all screwed
>and no one at Red Hat knows anything until his return, just lovely.
>
>This email is a plea for you to email   legal redhat com and voice your
>displeasure over Red Hat's new copyright policy requiring their GPL
>distribution to be called something other than Red Hat Linux GPL.
>
>I know this is off topic, so flame away, but it is an issue that AFFECTS ALL
>RED HAT LINUX USERS and POTENTIAL USERS.
>
>Robb Sands
>robb bestlinux tf
>
>
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