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On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Raj Mathur raju@linux-delhi.org wrote:
Read the post by Atanu again. RH cannot prevent you from redistributing or making copies of the software in RHEL; however they can restrict you from copying and/or redistributing their trademarked logos and artwork, and for that reason it is illegal to make copies of or to redistribute RHEL.
I think I does means, If i do not touch/distribute there artwork and logo, trademark, I can distribute rest of the things with/without modifications !!
So my question is... Can Red Hat enterprise products be really considered as Open Source (as their website claims)
All software that is under FLOSS licences (GPL, BSD, APL, etc.) are Opensource.
However there are likely to be several closed packages included (eg. nvidia drivers) and these maybe governed by more restricted licences, including being restricted to installation on one single cpu and or user.
Again, while the software licences are FOSS, the artwork and logos that RHEL includes are not. You can copy the software, but you can't copy the distribution as a while without violating the law (note: trademark law, NOT copyright law).
Regards,
-- Raju
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