-----Original Message----- From: Rishi Gangoly Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 6:09 PM

On Tue December 23 2003 4:05 pm, Senthil_OR@Dell.com wrote:

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http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20031223001556&

I read this article and I am completely surprised.

For RH9.0 and Fedora,I believe,any number of copies can be made and distributed. It is available for Free Download in the Redhat FTP itself.

The article is not giving the complete picture.

I suggest you read this page specifically regarding distribution.

http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/guidelines/page4.html

Also in general you should go through the Trademark Guidelines before considering distributing it commercially.

http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/

Regards

I went through the two links you provided. and I did not find anything related to the story itself.

See, the news article states as: ...a fresh case of mass copying of the Linux-based Operating System of Red Hat India by the Centre for Development of Imaging Technology (C-DIT) has surfaced...

Now, the Fedora License says that: This agreement governs the download, installation or use of the Software (as defined below) and any updates to the Software,**regardless of the delivery mechanism**. The Software is a collective work under U.S. Copyright Law. Subject to the following terms, Fedora Project grants to the user ("User") a license to this collective work pursuant to the ***GNU General Public License***.

The link you sent was like the copyright over the name 'Fedora'. I will be sued by RH, if I write an OS and call it Fedora, use its logo.

I am free to distribute Fedora( from Redhat) to my friends.

Now, coming to the New Ind Press article again, it did not mention, if C-DIT used RH9.0 ( or similar consumer based OS or they used RH-EL). Thus, it gave a wrong picture of the general public.

Thanks, Senthil