[lug] RHEL and the GPL

[Zan Lynx]

You should read the GPL.  RedHat must provide the source code to those
they sell the program to.  They are not obliged to provide source code
or binaries to anyone else.

That said, you should look at White Box Linux, it is RHEL rebuilt from
source.

On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 23:32, Joseph McDonald wrote:
> Since RHEL is GPL'd don't they have to provide it for us to
> download, install and use? Can we use it and not have to pay
> for updates and/or support? 
> 
> 	--joey
> 
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Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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