Actually there are two sets of CDs. The first set contains 3CDs which contains the RH LInux 9 OS. The logo is printed only on these CDs. The OS is not customized. It is copied as it is in the RedHat's site. The second set contains a single CD with packages developed by CDIT. This CD doesn't bear the logo of RedHat. The Akshaya project is completely a non-commercial initiative and as I have said earlier there is nothing in copying the logo. Manilal
Apparently, there are two CDs. One containing RPM binaries + sources of packages created by C-DIT for the Akshya project. The quote above apparently refers to this CD.
The other contains a customised version of RH. The first quote apparently refers to this CD. Hope I got it right. Then I take it that the letter from RH refers to the CD containing the OS.
May be, you distribute the ISO as it is from RH site; but, as pointed elsewhere, the RH trade mark policy does not permit that wholesale.
Maybe, C-DIT/Akshya is not charging anything for the CDs themselves. But whether one is doing a `commercial activity' is decided by the Courts by looking into other factors too.
But more than the Courts, we need to look into the ethical issues involved. RH does not like their logos to be used; the logos are not under a free license. Do not distribute them. Period. End of distribution.
The costs to be paid to the free software developer community by going ahead with such distribution will be high. The entire geographical region will have to bear that. Can we afford it??
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