RE: Quick cluster licensing question

["Brent M. Clements" <bclem rice edu>]

Ok, this has been brought up SOOO many times on this mailing list.

Why can't we get official clarification from Redhat somewhere on their
website or through an announcement?

Thanks,
Brent

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Collins, Kevin (MindWorks) wrote:

> And by "commercial redistribution", one would infer that means money
> changes hands. So giving it away is completely legit...
>
> Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: taroon-list-bounces redhat com
> [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Jay Turner
> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 9:56 AM
> To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
> Subject: Re: Quick cluster licensing question
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:09:00AM -0500, William Hooper wrote:
> > I agree with most of what Jay said, except...
> >
> > Jay Turner said:
> > [snip]
> > > You friend wants RHEL,
> > > hand him/her your discs/access to the code and he will be up and
> running
> > > at no cost.
> >
> > This could be at odds with Red Hat's Trademark guidelines (because you
> > would be distributing their trademarked material along with the
> software).
> >  This is the real reason all of these rebuild exist, to removed RH's
> > trademarks where needed.
>
> And oddly enough, even reading the EULA myself right now, I'm confused.
>
> "Customer should read the information
>     found at http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/ before
>     distributing a copy of the Software, regardless of whether it has
>     been modified.  If Customer makes a commercial redistribution of
>     the Software, unless a separate agreement with Red Hat is executed
>     or other permission granted, then Customer must modify the files
>     identified as ~ ~\REDHAT-LOGOS~@~] and ~ ~\anaconda-images~@~] to
>     remove all images containing the ~ ~\Red Hat~ ~] trademark or the
>     ~ ~\Shadowman~@~] logo.  Merely deleting these files may corrupt
>     the Software."
>
> That seems to imply that non-commercial redistribution doesn't require
> modification.  Heck, I'm guilty of violating my own company's EULA if it
>
> has your meaning :-)
>
> - jkt
>
> --
> --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
> --*
> Jay Turner, QA Technical Lead      jkt redhat com             Red Hat,
> Inc.
>
>             If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
>                                                    - Albert Einstein
>
> --
> Taroon-list mailing list
> Taroon-list redhat com
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list
>
>
>
> --
> Taroon-list mailing list
> Taroon-list redhat com
> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-list
>