On Saturday 04 October 2008 15:18:06 M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD wrote: <skip>
Dear Mr. M.S.Yatnatti, I understand many have tried to answer your query. Let me try once again: The answer why you can't redistribute RHEL is only because of the branding issues. The full RH sources are available on public servers for anyone to download. You can strip the sources off of RH artwork and logos and roll out your own distro. GPL permits the same, and it's certainly not a loophole. It can be attributed to the fact that RH simply doesn't want to be associated with a distro that's not distributed by them officially -- they don't wanna be responsible for providing support for it. Again, sources are available, not the binaries, and thus you can get fixes and updates for everything, provided you are willing to compile binaries. This is exactly what projects like CentOS do. Best, Atanu _______________________________________________ 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]/
