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Gregory Toomey wrote:
> The new Redhat licensing forces to pay for support if you use the product. If you use the software & dont pay, you are in breach of the Redhat Licence.
> This is in breach of the GPL, which always allows derivative works to be distributed for free.
> (You can pay of course, but there must always be a free version).

RedHat is charging for their copyrighted logos and some 
proprietary IBM software.  You can make your own distro from 
a RH distro if you remove all the non-GPL stuff.

Try reading this thread:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-October/msg01215.html

I linked to the "answer", but you might want to read the 
entire thread

> I think that there are better development models out there - Mandrake, Debian +Debian Derivatives.

 From what I can understand, Fedora will be similar to 
Debian-testing and Debian-unstable.  There will be actual 
releases, i.e. Fedora 1.0,, Fedora 1.1, etc., (not a Debian 
user, but it seams Debian doesn't "release" the non-stable 
versions, you just kind of get what is there at the time) 
and patches for each release, at least for a while after the 
release comes out.

I'm not exactly thrilled about this idea. I think there 
needs to be one more product line, something like Red Hat 
Power User Linux, Special Edition (RH PULSE).  Pay something 
like US$100 for the initial release + 2.5 years of up2date. 
  New RH PULSE releases, coming out of the Fedora project, 
come out about every 1-1.5 years and updates will stop on 
each release 2.5 years after the release date.  Oh yeah, you 
get the Red Hat logos, but no need for the IBM proprietary 
stuff...

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