RE: Quick cluster licensing question

["Collins, Kevin (MindWorks)" <KCollins chevrontexaco com>]

Its all semantics, but commercial derives from commerce, which involves
exchanging money for goods or services...

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Siegal
Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 11:36 AM
To: Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (Taroon)
Subject: Re: Quick cluster licensing question


It probably doesn't mean "money changes hands" but giving a copy or two

to a personal friend is probably not commercial distribution.

On Dec 17, 2004, at 10:01, 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
>
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