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

[Daniel Cassidy]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 18:09, Timothy R. Butler wrote: 
> 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).

What makes me laugh most is the bit about the FSF 'agreeing' that
distribution of the source code without binaries complies with the GPL,
as if there was ever any doubt that it might not do.