I admit that the Logo is printed on the CD. The CD's are issued by the CDIT to ITM but not to the public. Then how did the Indian Express people came to know the issue. It's clear that Akshaya project is non-comercial project. If the logo issue is solved then what is the problem with distributing the CD's? But the newspaper has not quoted the logo issue, instead they are focussing on "mass copying". Which is allowed by the GPL and RedHat. Then Why these people(Indian Express and Keralakaumudi) are trying this way. They are also trying to link this issue with FRIENDS which is absolutely unnecessary. Manilal
----- Original Message ----- From: Sajith VK sajithvk@hotpop.com Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:53:16 +0000 To: fsf-friends@mm.gnu.org.in Subject: RE: [Fsf-friends] Indian Express
On ബു, 2003-12-24 at 06:32, Manilal K M wrote:
Arun had absolutely gone wrong. The OS used is RH Linux 9.
Yes, OS is redhat 9.0. And Redhats logo is printed on the CD.As far as I know, Redhat 9.0 License doesnot allow this, but fedora License do. The real question is, is it a "COMMERCIAL REDISTRIBUTION" or not. Let someone else answer it.
Kerala IT mission and CDIT(?) was clearly informed about the issue. So it was up to them to take necessary steps.
But I do belive that there is "someone else" is playing behind the issue whose actual aim is to block the use of Free softwares in Akshaya project, and other IT related projects in kerala. They are trying to say "Even free softwares are not free in all case". This may result in unwanted confusion on common free software users. Let's take necessary action to avoid this confussion.
Here comes the point ....
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