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Changing Icon of The .EXE file in Visual Basic 6.0 (and red hat 8.0 licence)
Calum:
hey, void main, regarding the link you just posted, why are linuxiso.org allowed to call red hat downloads 'red hat'? from what i hear the red hat licence prohibits use of the name red hat or their logo for sites offering the cheapo (download) version of red hat. www.smb-computing.co.uk are offering it as XYZ XYZ linux, www.linuxemporium.co.uk have stopped offering the cheap version altogether and after i asked this same question at www.yourlinux.co.uk they replied that they were about to stop calling it red hat too (what a coincidence! :rolleyes: ) so how does linuxiso.org get away wit it?
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Calum:
hey, void main, regarding the link you just posted, why are linuxiso.org allowed to call red hat downloads 'red hat'?
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Um, maybe because it's Red Hat?
quote:
from what i hear the red hat licence prohibits use of the name red hat or their logo for sites offering the cheapo (download) version of red hat.
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As in cheapo, do you mean "free"? Never heard that before. There are hundreds of mirror sites to download Red Hat, just look at the Red Hat download page on their own site.
quote: www.smb-computing.co.uk are offering it as XYZ XYZ linux, www.linuxemporium.co.uk have stopped offering the cheap version altogether and after i asked this same question at www.yourlinux.co.uk they replied that they were about to stop calling it red hat too (what a coincidence! :rolleyes: ) so how does linuxiso.org get away wit it?
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Looks to me like those sites are charging for it? And possibly changing it? If I were Red Hat I would probably request the same thing under the same circumstances.
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Just did some research and found a trademark section on Red Hat's web site:
http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/guidelines.html
I believe these sections are the reason your quoted companies are changing the names:
http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page6.html
http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page7.html
And there is nothing that I could find anywhere regarding making copies and offering them for free. It appears to me that this is ok (as long as it's the downloadable/free version, the other versions contain proprietary software from other vendors that may not allow copying, also in the above reading).
Now the cool part is, you can download Red Hat's stock distro, remove their ICONs (and a few other minor items), put your cool logo on it and sell it as a new and complete distro and charge whatever you want for it. I think that's pretty damn good, in fact that's how Mandrake got started.
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[ December 18, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
flap:
Labelling it "xyz linux" is ridiculous though. They could simply state that the isos were downloaded from red hat, without actually calling it "red hat"
voidmain:
I don't think Red Hat even wants them to do that. It looks to me like a lot of people were buying these CDs from these burning houses and then coming to Red Hat wanting help/support.
flap:
Well regardless of what the website calls them, people are going to catch on quickly to the fact that they have in fact bought "Red Hat" when they boot up and "Red Hat Linux" appears on their screen.
I can't believe RH want to turn down the publicity of having their software distributed for them under their name. That's one of the major advantages of FS to the companies that make it.
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