Well, if it's only the installer we're talking about, here, then anaconda, the Red Hat installer, is definitely GPLed and therefore distributable. Not sure the ISOs themselves are distributable, but I believe they are. And even if not, though undocumented, it's not too hard to make your own ISOs from an install tree (with the added bonus that you include the whatever updates have come out). And I'm quite certain (though it's always worth verifying), that every single package in the base Red Hat 7.3 is redistributable (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, Artistic). I wish I could answer the original poster, but I can only go by my memory, and if my memory serves me correctly, the installer is not redistributable. But the last version of SuSE I tried was version 5.3, so I can't speak with any authority on the matter.
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 14:33, Jerry Feldman wrote: > That is correct, but that would apply also to Red Hat unless they > specifically permit it. As I mentioned, there was a question posed on their > English listserv a month or so ago. I was not able to find the messages > when I made a quck search. AFAIK they do not object. > On 21 May 2002 at 13:59, Benjamin Scott wrote: > > > On Tue, 21 May 2002, at 1:40pm, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > > SuSE places the ISOs online after the release has been out for a month. > > > > This does not give you the right to make and/or distribute copies. They > > are still copyrighted works (automatically); SuSE must explicitly give > > permission for copying. If SuSE, for example, only allows the end-user to > > download (and does not allow redistribution of) YaST, that would make things > > difficult. You could still copy the rest of it (GPL, BSDL, etc.), but > > without an installer, the distribution is not much use. -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
