[ale] Re: Red Hat scare tactics

[Jeff Layton]

Chris Ricker wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> >  From what I understand ROCKS has to do this because they
> > have to pull the Redhat copyrighted stuff out of the code so
> > they can redistribute it. Make sense?
>
> No. Copyright != Trademark. ROCKS rebuilds because they have to pull 
> Red Hat
> Trademarks. If you pull all the Red Hat copyrighted stuff out of your 
> box,
> your kernel won't even boot, you won't have networking, half your 
> userspace
> will be gone, etc.
>

Your right of course. Small brain freeze when I was typing.

Thanks!

Jeff


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Dr. Jeff Layton
Aerodynamics and CFD
Lockheed-Martin Aeronautical Company - Marietta