[ale] Canonical makes Apple look so good...

[Brian Pitts]

On 03/08/2011 02:09 AM, Don Lachlan wrote:
>>From Mark Shuttleworth's blog posted earlier:
> "This enables us to make the desktop available in a high quality,
> fully maintained form, without any royalties or license fees. By
> contrast, every other commercial Linux desktop is a licensed product –
> you can’t legally use it for free, the terms for binaries are similar
> to those for Windows or the MacOS."
> 
> That's completely false. It's not even *kinda* true on any grounds.
> You can freely use or distribute RHEL or SLES or any other
> "commercial" GNU/Linux distro without fear - because it's all GPL or
> GPL-compatible.

Have you looked at the end user license agreement that you accept in
order to use Red Hat?

https://www.redhat.com/licenses/us.html

It's true that it doesn't take away any rights you have under the
licenses the code is released under, but those rights don't include
"freely use or distribute RHEL". There's a reason it takes CentOS so
long to release updates after Red Hat does; they're busy stripping out
everything that legally prevents them from distributing it.

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All the best,
Brian Pitts