 | | | OT: CentOS and linking to Red Hat 's website | OT: CentOS and linking to Red Hat 's website 2005-02-14 - By Ken Snider
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I thought some of the folks here may be interested in the current legal
goings-on between Red Hat and CentOS (an RHEL Taroon "recompile"):
http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=66
For the record, the request seems reasonable, save this:
"Moreover, our client does not allow others to provide links to our
client's web site without permission."
So.. people can't link to Red Hat? I host a small collection of webpages
to assist people with some common Red Hat issues, and I link to the Red
Hat support pages (for their docs) and as a pointer to both RHN (for
RHEL)/Fedora Homepage and to official support.
I find it difficult to believe Red Hat actually *believes* the statement
above, and hope this is just a case of overzealous lawyering, but
there's been some rumblings about advocating the removal of links to Red
Hat *everywhere*, which would almost certainly do far more harm, than
good, IMHO.
Just a heads-up for those of you who, like me, may also host community
RHEL/Fedora support pages, and may link back to the Red Hat website.
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