[ale] Re: Red Hat scare tactics

Chris Ricker kaboom at gatech.edu
Fri Oct 17 11:49:24 EDT 2003


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.

later,
chris



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