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Distressing helpings of FUD

Distressing helpings of FUD

Posted Jul 1, 2005 23:35 UTC (Fri) by madscientist (subscriber, #16861)
In reply to: Distressing helpings of FUD by Max.Hyre
Parent article: ESR: 'We Don't Need the GPL Anymore' (O'ReillyNet)

Actually, what you can't share is Red Hat's branding: if Red Hat wants to keep their trademark, such a restriction is required. To redistribute the ISO, all you need do is grep `Red Hat' and globally replace it with `Foonly '.

Actually it's not quite that simple: there are other trademarked and/or copyright (by Red Hat)-and-not-licensed items on the CD such as images, icons, etc.

However, you don't have to do any work to get a "stripped" Red Hat distribution, because the CentOS folks (or the WhiteBox Linux folks) have already done it all for you. I don't use Red Hat or derivitaves myself but for those of you who do... Enjoy!


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