On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 16:45, Liam Bedford wrote:
> Kate, better watch out that you don't claim to be giving away RedHat CD's.
>> cheapbytes and a few others have received cease and desists from selling
> RedHat. You can call it anything (Ded Rat, Tah Der) else, but not RedHat.
>> (weenies on newsforge are having an argument about how it's GPL violation,
> but I don't see why someone else should be allowed use the name, just
> because it's the same software. In fact, Apache's license forbids you from
> using their name IIRC.)
>
It seems fair to me, clear case of Product infringement. Though I'm
supprised that they can't use the name of the distro in the name of the
product that they are selling.
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