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Article #44Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux
From: Steve Gordon
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:53
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 00:53
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"Jeffrey Silverman" <jeffrey@jhu.edu> wrote in message news:pan.2003.11.05.19.19.25.265496@jhu.edu... > The Red Hat disks are *binary program disks*. They are Red Hat's > property. All Red Hat has to do to comply with the GPL is to publish the > full source for those disks. They can do whatever they want with the > binaries, including limiting distribution of the binary disks. > > Please, someone vindicate me on this! Absolutely correct. What you CAN do under the GPL is use the source for enterprise (which is available), compile the whole distro yourself minus the proprietory bits and run with that. You cannot however distribute the binary version of the product because it includes software that RedHat has full ownership (ie. proprietory), and it is for THAT software that you pay a license fee (indicating that those specific pieces of software are not GPL'ed although I do not know exactly what the licensing terms on them are). Whether there would be any benefit to having enterprise without those proprietory pieces of software is debatable, I suspect in the future such a hack will end up being fedora with all the innovative bits taken out...(given a few product cycles anyway). -Steve
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