[Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content
Paul
subsolar at subsolar.org
Mon Feb 14 19:44:58 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 06:59 -0600, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> Not necessarily. The large corporations pay the search engines to
> ensure that they come up higher on the response lists.
>
> I understand that RedHat is trying to protect their income. After all,
> why pay for RHEL if CentOS is free? I basically have two questions that
> I need to find a good IP attorney to clarify for me:
You buy RHEL because you want/need support ... simple as that.
> 1) If CentOS is, in fact, a re-compile clone of RHEL with RH's
> permission (as per the GPL), then how can they legally require that
> CentOS not disclose that fact?
> 2) Is it legal to restrict others from linking to your website?
For #2 it's been my understanding that linking to a website is always
allow http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,35306,00.html
> I think RH's going a bit overboard, as there really was no confusion as
> to whether or not RH was supporting CentOS.
I agree, I'm becomming a frustrated with them and this issue.
Paul
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