Questions on GPL application for embedded product

[Hardy, Allan]

Your right it's not the same. It was a loose analogy - the idea of impediments or speed bumps to fulfilling GPL requirements is what I was responding to.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Sitaram Chamarty [mailto:sitaramc at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:09 PM
To: Hardy, Allan
Cc: Ralph Corderoy; legal at lists.gpl-violations.org
Subject: Re: Questions on GPL application for embedded product

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Hardy, Allan<allan.hardy at lmco.com> wrote:
> Sorta like Redhat Linux and JBoss.com products, you can make copies of
> GPL/LGPL software, only if you replace the logos/trademarks.  A speed bump
> of an impediment.  Free Software Foundation and the Software Freedom Law
> Center seem to accept these kinds of speed bumps given thier acceptance of
> Redhats trademark policy.

I don't think it's the same thing.  Red Hat's "restriction" on you is
purely by way of trademark law (their logos are trademarked, I
believe), nothing to do with the GPL.

In fact, it's the binaries you are restricted from, and since GPL only
says "source", there is no issue.