[Asterisk-Users] Re: Advice on OS Choice

[Geoff Nordli]

asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, David McNett wrote:
> 
>> On 14-Oct-2004, Stephen R. Besch wrote:
>> No, it is a violation of the EULA on RedHat's server products to run
>> them without having purchased a support agreement.  It is not
>> permitted to obtain or run RedHat Enterprise Linux without having
>> paid for it. 
>> 
>> I'm not sure how they get away with this practice on GPL'd code, but
>> they do.
> 
> Parts of the distribution is non-gpl. This is a "mere
> aggregation" which
> is allowed. Also, you are not allowed to use their trademarks
> for your own
> distribution.
> 
> There are several distributions which are based on the
> packages from RH ES
> 3, with the proprietary packages removed. These are all in the clear.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 

CentOS:  http://www.centos.org/
White Box: http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/
TaoLinux:  http://taolinux.org/

Are free distros based on the RHEL versions.

Have a great day!

Geoff