[KLUG Members] Red Hat trademark policy

[Jamie McCarthy]

This story runs on NewsForge real soon now...



Red Hat revamping trademark policy in response to community
questions

- By Grant Gross -
Red Hat is revamping its trademark policy after a NewsForge
story on the company's enforcement of that policy spurred dozens
of comments and questions from the Open Source community.

Since the release of Red Hat 7.2 in October, the company has
been more actively pursuing what it sees as trademark violations
by CD resellers such as UnixCD.com and CheapBytes.com. Red Hat
is asking those retailers to not call what they sell "Red Hat,"
because of customer confusion over whether the resold product is
a complete version or includes service from Red Hat.

[...]

NewsForge: What's Red Hat's position on members of LUGs trading
CDs with downloaded Red Hat on them? Is it OK to call these Red
Hat Linux 7.2, or something similar?

London answers: "Probably, but with a codicil that states that
this is the free download, or not supported, etc."
--
 Jamie McCarthy
 jamie@mccarthy.vg