>I'm not sure what this bit is intended to illustrate, are you >suggesting that Alan Cox (or somesuch luminary) drafted the License? > >ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-6.2-e n/os/i386/COPYING/
No, what I am suggesting is that while RH were small/pre-flotation there is a good chance that someone from a coding background did indeed write the license (which looks sneakily like a "just use someone else's work with a small wrapper by me"; tell me that's not the sign of a coder) but now that they are big/limited a lawyer has been tasked with it. I don't see anything particularly sinister in what they are doing other than it is the stuff of accepted corporate culture. Are you suggesting anything more than RedHat are acting like a company? Do you think they are going to write an entirely proprietary distro or disallow use of their source? That is certainly not what I read into it, please let me know what you think they are up to. MC -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
