[CLUE-Tech] Trademark

[Angelo Bertolli]

> There is a legal aspect here as well.  Red Hat has their name/logo
> trademarked.  U.S. trademark law stipulates that if you *do not* make
> efforts to defend and protect your trademark (i.e. defending against
> dilution, theft, inappropriate use, use by other parties with proper
> attribution, etc into a large legal mire), you *can not* have the privileges
> of a trademark.  So, they have to go down this road if they want legal
> protection from someone else calling their distro "RedHat".  May not seem
> nice, but, that's the way the law reads. IANAL, but, my best recollection.

More specifically, I mean what about the fact that a RH distro comes up 
with "Red Hat" on the login screen?  Isn't it still legal to make copies 
under the GPL?

Angelo