On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, Nitebirdz wrote:
>I wouldn't overlook this licensing issue though. The original poster is
>right that a lot of people are bashing Red Hat for who knows what reason
>but in most cases they're simply beeing deeply unfair. Red Hat is the
I agree with this 100%.
>ONLY major Linux distribution that releases ALL their software under a GPL
>license,
For the record, RedHat has software such as Motif, which is not
GPL at all, unless this has changed recently that I'm unaware
of. I think what you mean is that the operating system and all
software that it comes with, and most of the other stuff redhat
sells is GPL.
>which among other things makes it possible for other people to
>take a Red Hat CD and start building their own distribution on top (e.g.,
>Mandrake, Caldera...). Perhaps the only other major distro to do this is
>Debian, but depends on whether or not you consider Debian a MAJOR
>distribution.
RedHat, Caldera, SuSe, Debian and few others are "MAJOR" if you
think of MAJOR as in number of OS's installed.
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