From the paragraph it sounds like the biggest concern is with trademarks. Red Hat does not want anyone to redistribute the AS product as a Red Hat distro. Sounds fair enough as someone could be confused as to what it is they are actually acquiring and may assume that Red Hat service comes with the product when it actually does not if its not acquired through Red Hat.
Now the tricky part is that redistribution and resale will be dependant upon the individual copyrights of each software package in the distribution. The license is not clear on this which can be expected. Most of the software in AS is GPLed and Red Hat cannot change that fact. But it would take some research to see what type of license is placed on Red Hat copyrighted software that is included in the distribution.
So reading the license it sounds like resale and redistribution is possible, you are only prohibited from using Red Hat's trademark and you would need make sure there are no Red Hat copyrighted packages included that do not have a GPL type license.
The item that concerned me in the license was the audit provision. I understand why this is placed in a license for proprietary licensed software, but why is it needed for a company whose revenue stream is based off service? If I were interested in resale and redistribution of RHL AS the audit provision would have me very concerned and I would take a very close look at the licensing of the Red Hat copyrighted software in the AS distro.
But here is some assurrance that Red Hat is not the MS wannabe trying to hijack linux. You can acquire the RHL AS source ISOs directly from Red Hat for free. Sounds like free enterprise software to me.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
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Resale / redistribution possible, sort of
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 19, 2004 03:34 AM<A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us_3.html?country=United+States&" TITLE="redhat.com">http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us_3.html?cou<nobr>n<wbr></nobr> try=United+States&</a redhat.com>
From the paragraph it sounds like the biggest concern is with trademarks. Red Hat does not want anyone to redistribute the AS product as a Red Hat distro. Sounds fair enough as someone could be confused as to what it is they are actually acquiring and may assume that Red Hat service comes with the product when it actually does not if its not acquired through Red Hat.
Now the tricky part is that redistribution and resale will be dependant upon the individual copyrights of each software package in the distribution. The license is not clear on this which can be expected. Most of the software in AS is GPLed and Red Hat cannot change that fact. But it would take some research to see what type of license is placed on Red Hat copyrighted software that is included in the distribution.
So reading the license it sounds like resale and redistribution is possible, you are only prohibited from using Red Hat's trademark and you would need make sure there are no Red Hat copyrighted packages included that do not have a GPL type license.
The item that concerned me in the license was the audit provision. I understand why this is placed in a license for proprietary licensed software, but why is it needed for a company whose revenue stream is based off service? If I were interested in resale and redistribution of RHL AS the audit provision would have me very concerned and I would take a very close look at the licensing of the Red Hat copyrighted software in the AS distro.
But here is some assurrance that Red Hat is not the MS wannabe trying to hijack linux. You can acquire the RHL AS source ISOs directly from Red Hat for free. Sounds like free enterprise software to me.<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;)
<A HREF="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/2.1AS/en/os/" TITLE="redhat.com">
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/<nobr>2<wbr></nobr> .1AS/en/os/</a redhat.com>
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