This is interesting, I had this question for a while ? I am not sure what the exact redhat licenses and protection is ? Are the cd's protected, ???
Redhat, it seems, takes money not for the software but for the setting up, maintenance and updates. So what is to prevent any one from redistributing a) the Redhat itself and b) the updates when they come and if they so have such strong anti copying mechanisms what makes them different from Microsoft ? ram Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: >John Marder wrote: > > >>Vivek, when you say that "you cannot make copies of RHEL operating >>systems"..do you mean there are legal obstacles (ex. piracy issues) or >>are you referring to technical problems (such as cd's being copy >>protected etc.)? In case it's the latter, i'm sure somebody must have >>cracked the scheme and posted the details online. >> >> > >It is a contractual violation. I am not sure how they can prevent GPLed >packages from being copied, but there is such a legal requirement. > >- Sandip > > > > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
