Re: Distro originated from RH9
On 4 Jun 2003, Vladimir Djokic wrote:
>
> Good day,
> People. I'm trying to build distro originated from RH9. I've managed to
> modify anaconda, but have a few other questions (legal):
>
> (1) kudzu says something like: 'Hardware probing tool...(C) 2003 Red
> Hat, Inc.'. I'm fine with leaving this Copyright notice, if it's legal,
> or should/can I change it to (if I modify the code) to something like:
> 'SVCDHF Linux hardware prober... (C) My company'?
Leave existing copyright notices in place. Ad yours if you feel your
changes warrant it.
>
> (2) I'm in process rebuilding RPMs, but can I change data in spec
> files, like description: '...these are SHVCDF init scripts...' (insted
> of "...Red Hat init scripts...'), and other data that is related to Red
> Hat, Inc.?
Read RH's trademark guidelines. Whatever you create, you can't describe
it as Red Hat Linux, and maybe you can't say it's "derived from RHL."
AFAIK using packages unaltered is fine.
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