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Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage

Posted by Hemos on from the same-problem-as-a-long-time dept.

Mister Incognito writes "As you probably know, Centos is a free distribution compiled from sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As requested, the distro has any references to Red Hat removed. But now Red Hat has decided that Centos must not even mention their name on the web site, or link to Red Hat, or even use metatags with its name on it. " Well, actually, what RHAT has asked for is that Centos comply with the their terms for using the name; Matthew Szulik has talked about this before, and should be noted that not all of the copyright stuff is "bad."

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  1. What about whitebox linux? by vk2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does the same restrictions apply to white box linux too?

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  3. What about Whitebox? by BostonGunNut · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Whitebox linux seems to be doing the same thing. Will Red Hat chase down all of these RHEL forks? Doesn't this sort of go against the Linux "way?"

  4. Re:From now on by mukund · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's funny how you swap Red and Hat around and you get "Hatred".

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