On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >ONLY major Linux distribution that releases ALL their software under a GPL
> >license,
>
> For the record, RedHat has software such as Motif,
Not true. We used to have some Motif years ago, before Lesstif got
anywhere near usable. Right now, we have Lesstif and OpenMotif in
Powertools.
None of them was developed by us (and we can't pick the licenses other
people choose) - all the stuff we develop ourselves is GPL or LGPL.
> >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.
SuSE did NOT GPL their installer (It's license basically says "you may
read the source, but you may not use it in other projects").
Caldera's installer used to be proprietary; I think they've published the
source only recently (and I think it's still not GPL, but I might be
wrong).
LLaP
bero
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