[ale] Re: Red Hat scare tactics

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Jeff Layton wrote:

>  From what I understand ROCKS has to do this because they
> have to pull the Redhat copyrighted stuff out of the code so
> they can redistribute it. Make sense?

No. Copyright != Trademark. ROCKS rebuilds because they have to pull Red Hat
Trademarks. If you pull all the Red Hat copyrighted stuff out of your box,
your kernel won't even boot, you won't have networking, half your userspace
will be gone, etc.

later,
chris