Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
by freehunter on Sunday December 11, 2011 @06:13PM
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But is CentOS called "Red Hat"? No, it's called CentOS. With the comment I made, I was saying you wouldn't be able to release WebOS without HP's permission. Just like you can't release Red Hat without Red Hat's permission, so you fork it and use your own trademark.
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Re:HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
by hugoroy on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @09:20AM
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That's a totally different matter which has nothing to do with what you were talking about earlier. Trademark and Free Software are two completely different things… (unlike copyright and patent law, where the code itself is directly licensed under copyright law and has to deal with patent law; however there is almost never a trademark license…)