[clue-tech] CentOS

[mike havlicek]

Think of Bell labs... the distribution of SysV and the
development of BSD. 

How did any commercial UNIX ever evolve? The license
for SysV was "cheeply" sold to UCB ... I think they
paid $35 for the source. But up until recently how was
e.g. Sun able to require paid fees for OS software
aquired as they did? Or how bout SCO? HP-UX, IRIX???

-Mike

--- 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
> 
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