Re: Pirating Ubuntu?

["Randy Cole" <user=55@nabble.blu.org>]

 Matthew Gillen wrote: 
> Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
>> ...  So, was that illegal? 
Yar' gonna walk the plank, matey.  Arrr! 
>  .... At the same time, software licensing isn't the only issue, there 
> are also trademark issues. 
> 
> Probably the most compelling evidence that you did do something that 
> could be considered trademark infringement is to look at what CentOS 
> has to do in order to redistribute what is for all intents and 
> purposes redhat enterprise linux:  they have to strip out all the 
> Redhat artwork, all mention of redhat (including in package names).   
> They can't even mention redhat on their website (they say "a prominent 
> north American vendor"). 
> 
> Again, Apache is a great example, because it's a single piece of 
> software with a strong brand to protect, and their license is far less 
> restrictive than the GPL.