On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 15:28, Johnny Hughes 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... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com