On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 06:39:07PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I downloaded Fedora, and tried to install it on a box of mine (well - > VMWare to be precise). The problem with installing it was not > technical.
Boo, real men use UML and report bugs :-) > The problem was that Fedora now includes an End User License Agreement. > That's right, folks. So? > I may be paranoid, but to me an EULA means that someone is trying to > apply contract laws where copyright laws (or, in this case, Trademark > laws) can't get them what they want. I don't like such behaviour. Have you read the EULA? Assuming that it's what I can find at http://www.klid.dk/sw/fedora/1/eula.txt, all it does is ascertain that the relevant laws (trademark, copyright), are valid here. Seems fine to me. Is there anything specific that you object to? For the impatient list readers, the opening paragraph reads: "This agreement governs the download, installation or use of the Software (as defined below) and any updates to the Software, regardless of the delivery mechanism. The Software is a collective work under U.S. Copyright Law. Subject to the following terms, Fedora Project grants to the user ("User") a license to this collective work pursuant to the GNU General Public License. By downloading, installing or using the Software, User agrees to the terms of this agreement." > It seems to me that RedHat has drifted away major parts of the spirit of > free software (happy hacking), and into the land of "let's make much > money fast". While perfectly acceptable for a commercial company, it > doesn't feel right for me to promote anti-hacking practices within the > community. While I agree that RedHat is certainly far from a care-free "happy hacking", they have done nothing wrong that I wouldn't possibly do in their stead. To steal another company's motto, I haven't seen them being evil, yet. That being said, I won't play with any RedHat distribution (Fedora included) in the near future for *fun*. I certainly might for work. > I guess what I'm trying to say is this - I did not move to free software > so that I need to consult a lawer for every thing I do. You can thank big businesses for that. Take it or leave it, there is now a lot of money at stake. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ "the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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