On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Pravin Dhayfule <[email protected]> wrote:
> ========================================================= > > Re: Can Red Hat Enterprise products fall under FOSS? (Atanu Datta) > > Re: Can Red Hat Enterprise products fall under FOSS? > > (Sukhdev Jadhav) > > Re: Can Red Hat Enterprise products fall under FOSS? (jtd) > > Re: Can Red Hat Enterprise products fall under FOSS? (Raj Mathur) > > Re: Can Red Hat Enterprise products fall under FOSS? > > (narendra sisodiya) > > =========================================================== > > Hi Folks, > > Thanks for the reply and the explanations. They all were well explainative > and logical :) > > But my friends, I do agree about what CentOS does, distribute by removing > trademarks etc etc. > > I agree. > > But folks, these all apply to them who want to entirely distribute a new > Flavor by reusing Red Hat code. > > My question lies related to End Users. Just for the example what my friend > did. Obtained the Red Had Linux CD from institute as a COPY of Original CD, > just like how Windows, Linux Mint, Ubuntu and other OS CDs are replicated > and distributed. > > Now on Ubuntu's cover for example, they permit Users the exclusive freedom > to replicate and distribute the CDs, although for Windows its Restricted, > and I guess this would be even restricted by Red Hat since every CD may be > charged per System. > > So my questions is will this END USER style of distribution and sharing > lead > to Piracy? > > Trademark Removal etc are all Programmer Level steps. I am talking from a > perspective of Sharing the OS with a neighbor to install on his/her system > as it is received..... Will it be piracy? > > Bye > Regards > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > See, FOSS licence give various freedom to code and programmer !! like MIT licence give maximum freedom to coder and GNU licence give maximum freedom to code itself. but I have full freedom to "not to use my freedom" -- like, Suppose one of my client want to write a code !! He do not to show code to world !! then I will code or him and give him under GPL !! So i am coding a free software (because i am giving him full freedom) for my client but i am going to share it with rest of world, and my client will not going to share it with rest of world !! I think it truly valid scenario where I am restriciting my freedom !! There are many example where companies do have dual licence , for example -- see this flowplayer http://techfandu.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-is-how-you-can-earn-using-foss.htmlrelease same code under different licence , one os Open source - GPL3.0 and other is commercial licence . because he is the creator of code base he has full right to do it. and this is fully valid. If redhat is bundling some with GPL software and making a new OS which has restriction, this is truly valid scenario. You can say "Redhat Linux" is not a Open Soruce Linux OS, It is commerical Linux OS. Please correct me where am wrong !! -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ R&D Engineer │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
