[ale] Red Hat and the GPL

[Chris Ricker]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, James P. Kinney III wrote:

> As I read the EULA, RedHat is not in violation of the GPL. The
> distribute the source with the binaries, the don't restrict the use of
> the binaries. What the restrict is the use of their network access. They
> do restrict the use of the RedHat name and logo. As such, there is a
> single package that contains all of the RedHat branding. If that package
> is removed, The EULA does not restrict the redistribution of the entire
> RHEL. But it is not legal to call it RHEL.

And some people, perfectly legally, do take the source to Red Hat Enterprise 
Linux minus trademarked RH images, rebuild it, and redistribute it under 
another name....

later,
chris