Christofer C. Bell wrote: > On 2/22/06, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Identifying with RHAT and acknowledging the benefits we get from their >> work are Good Things, but there is nothing wrong with respins IMO, >> legally or morally, in fact its the whole idea. > > That is absolutely untrue. The "whole idea" of the GPL and Free > software is to allow anyone to "add value" to what's out there. I did not see that phrase in the license, somewhat annoying if it is actually meant to be the "whole idea". > That's not what CentOS and White Box do. They take someone else's > work, remove references to the people that did the work, and package > it up so that you can "freely" use Red Hat's efforts in creating RHEL. > > They are not adding value. They are not "making changes that are > helpful to the community" they are not acting in the spirit of Free > software. They're leeching off Red Hat's hard work and yes, despite > the removal of trademarks, Red Hat's hard fought for and won > reputation, to let people get at the work without going through Red > Hat. That's called "ripping them off." > > That is *not* the spirit of Free software. That *not* "the whole idea." We'll have to agree to disagree Chris, since I feel a new flamewar is otherwise about to start. I stand by what I said earlier, which explained my take pretty clearly. If you don't see my points then we'll both live :-) -Andy
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