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just a punk · 06-11-2012, 03:46 AM

Here is a quote from Trademark Guidelines. - Red Hat, which will help you to understand how the GPL 2.0 works regarding to commercial products:

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Guidelines For Marketing Software Products Containing Unmodiﬁed Red Hat® Linux® Software

As a licensee under the GPL and other applicable copyright licenses, you may replicate the software contained in Red Hat® Linux® or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, whether downloaded from an FTP site or other electronic download site or copied from a CD originally produced by Red Hat, and may market the replicated product in accordance with the terms of the copyright licenses. However, it would be confusing to consumers if you identify such a replicated product as Red Hat® Linux®. If you do not qualify under and comply with the “Trademark Permissions” but want to produce and market copies of Red Hat® Linux® or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® software, as it is developed and released by Red Hat without modiﬁcation, you may do so, provided you strictly follow these guidelines:

A. You must comply with all applicable copyright licenses for the software and the guidelines in this document.

B. You may not name or brand your product “Red Hat Linux,” “Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” or use the Red Hat trademarks in any way, either on your product or in advertising. You must use a different trademark for your product that will not cause confusion with the trademarks of Red Hat or another party, will not indicate or imply that your product originates from or is sponsored or approved by Red Hat, and which otherwise complies with applicable trademark laws. Please also refer to the guidelines for use of the brand “Red Hat” and for plays on the words “Red Hat.”

C. You may not state that your product “contains Red Hat Linux X.X.” or “Red Hat Enterprise Linux X.X.” This would amount to impermissible use of Red Hatʼs trademarks. You may resell the boxed version of your software that you purchased from Red Hat so long as you sell the original discs and documentation included with the boxed version. However, if you have registered the product with Red Hat for purposes of obtaining support services, you may not transfer your right in those support services, and you must advise the purchaser that they are not receiving support services.

D. You must modify the ﬁles identiﬁed as REDHAT-LOGOS and ANACONDA-IMAGES so as to remove all use of images containing the “Red Hat” trademark or Red Hatʼs Shadow Man logo. Note that mere deletion of these ﬁles may corrupt the software.

NOTE: The software contained on the Linux Application CDs that may be contained in our boxed product include some proprietary products. If you wish to distribute any of that proprietary application software, you must obtain a license to do so from the owner of that proprietary application software. Please do not copy any proprietary application software contained on the Linux Application CD unless the license for that software permits you to do so or you have obtained a separate license from the owner of the proprietary application software.

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As you can see in the NOTE section, even the GPL package (CD/DVD/binary archive etc) may contain a proprietary code which can be distributed w/o the author's permission. The re-distribution of non-proprietary GPL parts of code is allowed but with the restrictions (sections B, C and D).

06-11-2012, 03:46 AM
just a punk So fuckin' bored Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 32,392	My two cents for the GPL discussion Here is a quote from Trademark Guidelines. - Red Hat, which will help you to understand how the GPL 2.0 works regarding to commercial products: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guidelines For Marketing Software Products Containing Unmodiﬁed Red Hat® Linux® Software As a licensee under the GPL and other applicable copyright licenses, you may replicate the software contained in Red Hat® Linux® or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, whether downloaded from an FTP site or other electronic download site or copied from a CD originally produced by Red Hat, and may market the replicated product in accordance with the terms of the copyright licenses. However, it would be confusing to consumers if you identify such a replicated product as Red Hat® Linux®. If you do not qualify under and comply with the “Trademark Permissions” but want to produce and market copies of Red Hat® Linux® or Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® software, as it is developed and released by Red Hat without modiﬁcation, you may do so, provided you strictly follow these guidelines: A. You must comply with all applicable copyright licenses for the software and the guidelines in this document. B. You may not name or brand your product “Red Hat Linux,” “Red Hat Enterprise Linux,” or use the Red Hat trademarks in any way, either on your product or in advertising. You must use a different trademark for your product that will not cause confusion with the trademarks of Red Hat or another party, will not indicate or imply that your product originates from or is sponsored or approved by Red Hat, and which otherwise complies with applicable trademark laws. Please also refer to the guidelines for use of the brand “Red Hat” and for plays on the words “Red Hat.” C. You may not state that your product “contains Red Hat Linux X.X.” or “Red Hat Enterprise Linux X.X.” This would amount to impermissible use of Red Hatʼs trademarks. You may resell the boxed version of your software that you purchased from Red Hat so long as you sell the original discs and documentation included with the boxed version. However, if you have registered the product with Red Hat for purposes of obtaining support services, you may not transfer your right in those support services, and you must advise the purchaser that they are not receiving support services. D. You must modify the ﬁles identiﬁed as REDHAT-LOGOS and ANACONDA-IMAGES so as to remove all use of images containing the “Red Hat” trademark or Red Hatʼs Shadow Man logo. Note that mere deletion of these ﬁles may corrupt the software. NOTE: The software contained on the Linux Application CDs that may be contained in our boxed product include some proprietary products. If you wish to distribute any of that proprietary application software, you must obtain a license to do so from the owner of that proprietary application software. Please do not copy any proprietary application software contained on the Linux Application CD unless the license for that software permits you to do so or you have obtained a separate license from the owner of the proprietary application software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- As you can see in the NOTE section, even the GPL package (CD/DVD/binary archive etc) may contain a proprietary code which can be distributed w/o the author's permission. The re-distribution of non-proprietary GPL parts of code is allowed but with the restrictions (sections B, C and D). __________________ Obey the Cowgod Last edited by just a punk; 06-11-2012 at 03:52 AM..