s/RedHat/Red Hat/g
On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 12:31:11AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
> 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?
Lesstif is useful for building and running Motif 1.2 applications,
OpenMotif can be used for Motif 2.x applications.
> >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.
Red Hat did not develop Red Baron. It was developed by Spyglass
(Spyglass Moasic anyone? :)
> Not that any of that was a bad thing mind you.. just different
> than the current day..
Still, even then no code for it was written or maintained by us.
> 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.
The license depends on the the software being developed. Not just GPL
or LGPL, but XFree86 license if we're working on X code, etc. I'm
surprised people don't know this, we must be doing a piss-poor job
leting people know our stance on licenses.
> 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..
The installer is GPL. We haven't shipped Xv in a long time, as it's
shareware and there is no talk on it being Free any time soon.
Netscape has been the big exception since they began to allow
no-strings redistribution of Navigator and Communicator.
> 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.
You're absolutely within the rights we've licensed to you to modify
and redistribute those modifications to the installer. It's Free
Software, erm, Open Source...
Matt
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