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"Bill Unruh" <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message
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> Jacob Heider <lord-jacob@comcast.net> writes:
>
> ]On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:05:21 +1000, Gregory Toomey wrote:
>
> ]> They seem to forget that the nerds use Linux at home, college, AS WELL
AS
> ]> in the enterprise. Reh Hat is forcing users to buy support with their
> ]> latest offering, & breaking the GPL. So the nerds that made Red Hat
what
>
> ]I what sense are they "breaking the GPL"? The GPL was designed to product
> ]their right to make money by selling software licensed under it (in
> ]addition to other things).
>
> The GPL would allow anyuone to buy the Redhat disks and then load them
> onto their web server and allow anyone else to download them for free.
> To the extent that Redhat does not allow this, they are breaking the
> GPL. The idea that you can just put in a little program of your own and
> that is sufficient to withdraw the whole distro from GPL is, in my
> opinion, legally wrong. In so far as the distribution itself is a work
> requiring effort and originality, (and I think Redhat would claim it is,
> or they could not exert copyright law at all) then the parts of that
> work under GPL require that the work as a whole also have a license at
> least as liberal as the GPL. Ie, the distribution, in so far as it
> enjoys copyright protection, is a derived work, and thus falls under the
> terms of the GPL.
>
> So, redhat can certainly charge all they want for the Enterprize
> edition, but they cannot then prevent anyone from giving it away.

BZZZTTT ! wrong. Binaries are for pay, source is for play.

>
>
>
> ]> it is are now leaving in droves (forget fedora).
> ]>
>
> ]Any particular reason? Redhat + community support, should be at least as
> ]good as any other community supported linux, since it's starting from the
> ]redhat codebase.
>
> ]> Suse is now part of Novell, which is the kiss of death.
> ]>
> ]> I'm about to order Libranet, which is Debian + desktop/usability
> ]> enhancements. I'm ordering Gentoo as well.
> ]>
> ]> gtoomey
>


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