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Piracy in Asia

Posted Oct 23, 2003 14:28 UTC (Thu) by kay (subscriber, #1362)
In reply to: Piracy in Asia by fergal
Parent article: No More Free Beer?

The GPL say you can redistribute the GPL Software, but not design, trademarks and value added comercial software of the comercial distributions.

So they do "the right thing".

Kay

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Piracy in Asia

Posted Oct 24, 2003 9:17 UTC (Fri) by fergal (subscriber, #602) [Link]

I'm not sure, I don't think Redhat had started to get picky at that stage, people like cheapbytes were still happily distributing RH I think.

Either way, the police were not on a trademark/artwork infringement raid.