Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Jul 2009 16:44 UTC
The CentOS project, the Linux distribution aimed at the enterprise built from Red Hat's freely available source code, has hit a significant bump in the road: the project's main administrator, Lance Davis, has gone missing-in-action. This is kind of a problem as Davis is the sole administrator fo the CentOS.org domain, the IRC channels - and the CentOS funds.
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GPL question. Can they take the code and bring up CentOS.net or .info whatever and start new forums say "ahh darn it" to the 1 time lost funds, start new funds? Then change all the .org references in the code and call it good? Keep the logos etc?
Actually, that's a trademark question, not a GPL question. They can do this as long as the original trademark owner doesn't fight them. It's the responsibility of trademark owners to protect their marks, otherwise they may lose them.
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2006-01-26
Sadly, in the case of CentOS, it seems some of the tools are missing, and the shop has no power on
So you might be better off taking a copy of the service manual and going elsewhere if things don't improve...