Copyright law is fairly clear here. You *must not* remove
"Copyright YYYY Red Hat, Inc." from copyright statements. You may
append to copyright statements if significant changes have been made
to the source code that warrant copyright protection, and you choose
to claim copyright on those changes.
Now, the issue of trademark usage is different. You may not call
products that are not Offical Red Hat products "Red Hat Linux". This
is especially important for people doing things like selling CD-R
burned copies of Red Hat Linux on sites like eBay. Now, selling the
software is completely legal. You're given the right to do that by
the GPL and other licenses on the core OS CDs. However, you do not
have the right to use the Red Hat Linux name when selling those
products. This is to protect consumers from confusion when buying
products.
An overview of Red Hat's trademarks and their usage, see:
http://www.redhat.com/about/trademark_guidelines.html
Cheers,
Matt
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 09:56:25PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
> Hmm.. That will not be completely easy. In general you'll need
> to rebuild every single package, and modify every .spec file, as
> well as modifying some source code as well. grep and rgrep are
> your friend here. Be careful with modifying copyright messages
> though. You don't want to just do a full search and replace of
> Red Hat. Personally, if I were doing what you're doing, and a
> particular package was unmodified from Red Hat's, I would leave
> their name in there. It gives them credit for what they've
> done. I've made a few customized dist CD's for people, and I
> call it "Capslock Linux". I don't try to hide the fact that it
> is just customized Red Hat. I only replace the words "Red
> Hat" where it makes sense and is necessary. Replacing it
> everywhere IMHO is not right because it strips credit from where
> it is due. Any custom CD's I make, I don't want to detract
> people away from Red Hat, rather I want to draw them towards it.
>
> If I were selling the CD's, I would still do the same.
>
> Just some more input/feedback/ramble that might be useful...
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