On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 17:05, Leonard Isham wrote:
Perhaps RH will sue the "RH clone" builders if they include a redhat-release rpm or /etc/redhat-release file? It would seem rather silly.
While it would be rather silly ... we have been told not to make redhat- release say Trademarked things :)
I'm not a lawyer, but I thought that if you wanted to keep your trademark you had to keep it from being used as a generic term. If third party apps must use the trademarked reference when they really want to test for a generic compatible OS, they've done something wrong. There was a time when the only way to get aspirin was to ask for a trademarked brand name...
The applications only want to support the actual Prominent North American... or what ever we should call them.
Some applications might want to do that, but others may not. If the description always said XXX brand of YYY where YYY was a generic term then they could tell they had what they wanted either way.