Mike McCarty mike.mccarty@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.