On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 05:00:50PM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: > > As for being able to do it with GPL CDs - Try doing it with HedRat, > particularly any of the RHEL lines. You'll find out quickly that the > licence doesn't get you anywhere when HatRed's lawyers are on your > case. That's why Centos is carefully re-engineered. >
Nothing to do with the GPL. You can't sell Verbatim copies of the RHEL cds due to trademarks (not copyright) in logos and the name. CentOS is just RHEL without those logos and the name "Red Hat". Unrelated with this but relevant to the creator of the topic, you can't sell the official OpenBSD cds due to the artwork being copyrighted by Theo (I think). But you can download the cd on the internet (that cd does not contain artwork) and sell copies of it. Same thing with RedHat, you can take all the GPLed software (and BSDed) software there, put in a cd and sell copies of it, if you don't use the name RedHat or one of their logos. The difference resides between the legal mechanisms used: OpenBSD uses copyright on its artwork and RedHat uses trademarks on its logos. -- Victor Cortiano victorcorti...@gmail.com victortc.awardspace.info -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
