Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Can you give proper copyright credit on the Linux kernel > without the name Linux? A quick grep through the source > tree shows the word is used thousands of times. If this was the case, CentOS couldn't exist. Heck, Red Hat Enterprise Linux couldn't exist. This is trademark. It's about a "mark" in "trade." If you do not use the mark in the trade, you are fine. > If there are restrictions on the usage, how do you reconcile > that with the GPL requirement that prohibits additional > restrictions? Read your GPL more closely. GPL requires the software be functional without additional requirements. You do not need a trademark for it to be functional. The GPL does not prohibit bundling of other software that has restrictions, as long as the software does not require it to function. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)