[Fsf-friends] Indian Express
Manilal K M
manilal@linuxmail.org
Fri Dec 26 12:45:07 IST 2003
Actually there are two sets of CDs. The first set contains 3CDs which contains the RH LInux 9 OS. The logo is printed only on these CDs. The OS is not customized. It is copied as it is in the RedHat's site. The second set contains a single CD with packages developed by CDIT. This CD doesn't bear the logo of RedHat. The Akshaya project is completely a non-commercial initiative and as I have said earlier there is nothing in copying the logo.
Manilal
> Apparently, there are two CDs. One containing RPM binaries + sources
> of packages created by C-DIT for the Akshya project. The quote above
> apparently refers to this CD.
> The other contains a customised version of RH. The first quote
> apparently refers to this CD. Hope I got it right. Then I take it that
> the letter from RH refers to the CD containing the OS.
>
> May be, you distribute the ISO as it is from RH site; but, as pointed
> elsewhere, the RH trade mark policy does not permit that wholesale.
>
> Maybe, C-DIT/Akshya is not charging anything for the CDs
> themselves. But whether one is doing a `commercial activity' is
> decided by the Courts by looking into other factors too.
>
> But more than the Courts, we need to look into the ethical issues
> involved. RH does not like their logos to be used; the logos are not
> under a free license. Do not distribute them. Period. End of
> distribution.
>
> The costs to be paid to the free software developer community by going
> ahead with such distribution will be high. The entire geographical
> region will have to bear that. Can we afford it??
>
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