Dear Mr Atanu, I am thankful for your cool reply.Please provide me the link where GPL provides branding of GPLed software's.. At the same time please provide me what happens to four freedoms guaranteed in GPL at http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.Out of four one about redistribution is snatched by putting restriction on redistribution by branding. Is GPL has two different policies one about four freedoms and other with branding. Please be cool and reply.Many have lossed cool why replying to me.Let us understand the GPL indepth whether some one call me fool or troll.I am not bothered about their accusation .I make the debate without fearing any body.they can express their views I can express my views .Ultimately FOSS is big community to take care of GPL.. Learning is not simple.Immediately many people jumped on me calling troll instead of subject, Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? the question you have raised at Linux For You.. I dont know tommorrow they may say you have raised this isuue for cheap publicity for your magzine. I know you have made a great debate public..Thanks for your daring article. . M.S.Yatnatti
KPN UNLIMITED Corporate Office:No.18/6, Executive chambers, Cunningham Road, Bangalore – 560052. WEBSITE WWW.KPNUNLIMITED.ORG --- On Sat, 10/4/08, Atanu Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Atanu Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India To: [email protected] Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4:26 PM 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]/ _______________________________________________ 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]/
