[Foss-cafe] Sun Sticks 'Proprietary' Label on Red Hat Linux

[Timothy R. Butler]

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 22:50, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1573433,00.asp?kc=ewnws042704dtx1k0000599
> 
> Nice to hear someone say this.

	Sun is actually totally off base calling RHEL proprietary. It follows,
as Red Hat noted, the GPL. You simply can't get binaries of it from Red
Hat. (note, however, that several groups have published recompilations
of the RHEL source since that is all GPL'ed).

	-Tim

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