Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux

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From: Bill Unruh
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 17:39

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Jeffrey Silverman <jeffrey@jhu.edu> writes:

]On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 11:34:19 +0000, Bill Unruh wrote:

]> 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.

]That is a completely wrong misunderstanding of the GPL.  The GPL applies
]to the raw source code.  Compiled binaries, heck, even source RPMs are not
]required to be available for free.  Tar.gz (or uncompressed plain text)
]source files need only be available and the GPL is satisfied. Everything
]else provided by Red Hat for free is *gravy*, including binary RPMs, iso
]images, etc.

]I wish people would understand that!

Why should they understand somthing that is totally wrong? Where in the
GPL do you read that the GPL only applies to source code. Why would the
GPL DEMAND that source code be included in any distribution of GPL code
if it only applied to source code?

Ie, I am afraid that you are simply wrong, and should go back and read
the GPL.



]-- 
]    Jeffrey D. Silverman | jeffrey AT jhu DOT edu
]Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD
]                 Website | http://www.wse.jhu.edu/newtnotes/

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