[ale] Re: Red Hat scare tactics

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 17 October 2003 03:23 pm, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Friday 17 October 2003 02:25 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:46, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> >
> > This is a big part of the reason for the Fedora distribution.
> >
> > Currently, there are a few rpm packages that glue in the RedHat
> > trademarked logo's and name around the system. The splash screens on
> > boot and X startup are the two big ones. There are other locations that
> > use different RedHat TM'ed logo stuff. All of it gets put in
> > /usr/share/pixmaps/redhat. It is provided by the package redhat-logos.
> > Pulling out that package should get rid of all of the RedHat trademarked
> > stuff.
> >
> > That package is also NOT under the GPL:
>
> Ahh!  This I can understand them restricting.  If that is the only part of
> the distribution that is not free, I can handle it.  Cool-o.

To follow up, I just did a query on my desktop system and didn't see anything 
that didn't look open.  I can't wait to run it on a RH Enterprise system.

Here's the query I ran.  It's kinda cute (and should be all one line with 
single spaces at the line breaks): 

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}: %{LICENSE}\n' | grep -iv 
"GPL\|MIT\|freeware\|BSD\|XFree86\|public domain\|Poetic\|Free\|Public 
Domain\|Artistic\|GNU General Public License\|distributable\|MPL\|Apache 
Software License\|Distributable\|Apache-style"

Michael