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Article #38Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux
From: Kingbarry2000
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:40
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 18:40
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"Bill Unruh" <unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> wrote in message news:bobck3$q75$1@string.physics.ubc.ca... > 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. > BBBZZZTTT ! Thanks for playing but that was the wrong answer. Binaries are not free ( necessarily ). Source is free. -- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum. ?
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