On 24/09/2007, Akhilesh Mritunjai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, the tricky question involves the "binaries", because the binaries can > have their own term and conditions eg. RHEL (binary release) is illegal to > use w/o paying RH, but the sources can be compiled and distributed and used > freely like CentOS derived from RHEL. >
Actually, this is not correct. The binaries RedHat produces are licensed under the GPL. What you cannot use without RedHat's permission are the files containing their copyrighted branding. This is how they get away with requiring you to license RHEL even after your initial purchase on an ongoing basis. If you remove their branding rpm from the system as well as anything else that is their copyrighted material (that is not under a GPL, etc. license) you can use the rest of the binaries under the tems of their original license. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
