The deal with coyote is that, yes, the end product is Linux and GPL'ed,
and pretty much the same as the LRP, but what they do with that is put a
shell around it so that you can configure it before you commit it to
floppy. The Linux version is free because it's just a shell script that
asks you some questions and then puts the answers in the right places on
the floppy. The windows version has nice widgets to click on, and is
pay-to-play. Think about it, though: windows developer's kit==$$$$,
bash script==free, as in beer. If I'm correct, what you do with GPL
code is OK, as long as you don't include GPL code in the part that you
develop. If you write your master's thesis using emacs, does that mean
that you have to release your thesis under the GPL? Hell no. Tat's
where coyote gets away with what they do--they write a wrapper that
configures the floppy, but they don't actually mess with the GPL parts.
However, since the floppy contains GPL stuff, it should have a copy of
the GPL lying about somewhere on it.
--Mike
Bob Miller wrote:
> I don't know whether that's the complete distro or not. Shell
> scripts, obviously, are their own source.
>
> Darren Vyff wrote:
>
> > If its based on Linux, how can it be non GPL?
>
> Programs that _run_on_ Linux do not have to be GPL'd. Programs that
> are _part_of_ Linux do. That basically just means the kernel.
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"I was on a Boston to New York shuttle flight that gets stuck on the runway for 3 hours
with no explanation. Worse, I'm sitting in front of three idiot consultants from
Razorfish
who spend the whole time talking loudly and incessantly. Remarkably, not one word of it
resembled any productive activity in the slightest. 'So, I conducted a series of group
discussion sessions to quantify how they establish their procedures.' 'But, Bianca, how
did you formulate the framework for evaluating their paradigms?'
My favorite line - Bianca is irate because a client asked her for some concrete
bit of information: 'Can you believe that? Hello? I'm an Information Architect, not a
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