[clue-tech] CentOS

[mike havlicek]

--- Ed Hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 10:27 -0700, mike havlicek
> wrote:
> > 
> > Good points. And as I was speaking before I think
> it
> > only the kernel that RedHat changes. So in
> retrospect
> > if CentOS takes or models without using the RedHat
> > kernel one would suspect that all is fine. 
> > 
> > But they being RedHat do require "PAID" licensing
> to
> > even access the source rpms that have the GPL
> unless
> > for a 30 day trial.
> > 
> > So I again wonder how CentOS redistributes freely.
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> You've complete misunderstood a very important
> point.  GPL *is* GPL.
> Period.  No one (Red Hat included) can "un-GPL" the
> kernel or any other
> GPL'ed code by, for instance, linking in proprietary
> stuff or adding
> some additional terms to their distribution license.
>  Go read the GPL:
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html
> 
> and see for yourself.
> 
> Ed
Surely, but it can be modified with propriatory
changes as long as the original source is made
available at least by url  if not by ftp by the
provider??????

But the propriatory changes that make the company
money are not required to be provided. It is only the
universityware that has to be provided.
-Mike
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