On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 10:24:28AM -0600, Michael Lee Yohe wrote:
> To the same token RHEL is made up of a collection of packages - Red Hat
> gladly gives out the source code for those packages (that's what the GPL
> mandates). However, if Red Hat makes utility that is included with RHEL
> released under a RHEULA (Red Hat End User License Agreement) that
> specifies that it could only be used on one machine - than it is their
> choice. Even if the majority of the packages are GPL'd, that doesn't
> mean Red Hat can't choose to include something proprietary that must be
> licensed from them. They have to make money somehow.
Point of clarification here. There's actually no software in the base RHEL
distribution (that is, everything except the stuff on the extras CD like
the IBM Java packages) like you describe above. Every bit of that code is
available at ftp.redhat.com for download.
- jkt
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