2008/10/3 M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Praveen, > > Thank you for participating in the debate.Are you educating the open > FOSS community that any body can club all individual GPL software into > one Mega software collection under one umbrella using anaconda or Yum > which is also GPL and make non-free commercial software=RHEL . Still
We are not against commercial software (did you mean proprietary, which it clearly is not) or against making money. On the contrary what Free Software foundations says about selling Free Software is "Actually we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can." http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html > simple club all GPL = non free commercial .Please educate me .Is it for this > day Foss was born .Community make GPL Software and commercial entities take > benefit with simple trick .This > debate shall continue until, we have clear idea how to defeat GPL > violators. Are you talking about Red Hat here? Can you give an example of Red Hat's GPL violation? Any GPL software that Red Hat distributes without adhering to GPL? > > M.S.Yatnatti > Free Software Foundation has a guideline for evaluating Freeness of a distribution http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html And bits about trademarks say "Similarly, the distribution itself may hold particular trademarks. It is not a problem for these marks to be in the distribution, as long as they can readily be removed without losing the system's functionality." I believe RHEL trademarks fall under these category. CentOS is a best example of doing exactly this. -- പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില് <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
