On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 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.
Ok, great. I wasn't aware RedHat no longer sold Motif. Also, I
didn't believe Lesstif or OpenMotif were as compatible. I'm
assuming that they are and that that is why Motif was dropped?
>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.
Right, I knew that, but I knew that RedHat did sell stuff (at
least in the past) that was non-GPL, but also out of house. The
last RedHat developed non-GPL thing I remember was Red Baron.
Not that any of that was a bad thing mind you.. just different
than the current day..
So, does _all_ redhat software currently developed use GPL or
LGPL now? If so, I wasn't aware of that, but I think it is extra
cool to see. I think most non-GPL/LGPL developments in Linux
land are more or less ignored by most people nowadays unless they
are using another licence similar in nature.. I dropped Motif a
long time back due to licence voodoo.
>> >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).
Hmm.. I wasn't aware of that either. I've always assumed that
RedHat's installer, and all the stuff on the boot disks, and
installation, and distribution were GPL/LGPL/BSD/ or other
similar OS licence except for certain specific packages like
netscape/xv, and few others..
I've modified the redhat installer, and various files found in
the install disk sources myself. I'm assuming that my
assumptions are correct that it is all GPL and I'm legal beagle
to do so. Correct me if I'm wrong please.
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