[ale] Red Hat and the GPL

Bjorn Dittmer-Roche dittmeb at mail.rockefeller.edu
Thu Dec 11 16:48:57 EST 2003


On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Bob Toxen wrote:

>   3. A purchaser of a Red Hat CD-ROM (or downloaded CD-ROM image) cannot
>      distribute it "because of red hat trademark logos".
>

This was discussed a week or two ago and the point was made that copyright
and trademark laws are seperate. My understanding was that this means that
redhat can, in fact, restrict use of it's trademark, regardlesss of
copyright issues.

	bjorn



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