On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 02:25 +0200, Patrick wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-07 at 11:31 +1200, James Jones wrote: > [snip] > > Which, I > > fear, that mean Asterisk may be head the way of Red Hat and going close > > sourced!!!!! > > Maybe you should do a little research before you and make bold blanket > statements (and top post). Red Hat Enterprise Linux is not closed > source. How could for example CentOS exist without the source? See: > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/x86_64/SRPMS > Sure looks like *source* rpms to me... > > Patrick
I think perhaps that the confusion exists because redhat embeds trademarked material in the product and while they give you exact instructions on how to remove that content so you can exercise your GPL rights without a lot of effort, you still cant redistribute their trademarks without their permission. This caused a lot of bad feelings in the community. But then again there are companies that embed trademarked material in their product and dont provide such information on how you can exercise your GPL rights with the product without a lot of investment in time in hunting down everything to ensure compliance. http://www.digium.com/en/company/profile/trademarkpolicy.php Many in the open source community agree that this certainly goes against the spirit of the GPL, and in some cases against the wording since you dont have all the freedoms to edit and modify. -- Trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com Bret McDanel Belfast IE +44 28 9099 6461 DE +49 801 777 555 3402 Utrecht NL +31 306 553058 US WA +1 360 207 0479 US NY +1 516 687 5200 FreeWorldDialup: 635378 http://www.trxtel.com the VoIP provider that pays you!
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