[CentOS] Re: Linux Trademarked?

Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Tue Aug 23 23:35:35 UTC 2005


Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> If you make modifications to the source, and redistribute
> it according to GPL, then source you are distributing has
> the trademark in it.
> And that's a violation.

???

Then you'd have to yank every God damn piece of Linux
software on the shelf, distributed on the Internet, etc...
anytime someone put a trademark on them.  You'd eventually
_kill_ anything GPL being marked with anything, because GPL
couldn't be used for anything where someone applied a
trademark.

I can distribute 100% non-GPL software with GPL software, yet
I can't distribute a trademark.

Now if this all because you're frustrated with Red Hat, need
I remind people that Red Hat does _not_ have to put SRPMS out
on the Internet at all.  In fact, that's exactly what SuSE
does not do -- they only distribute them with the SLES
product.


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