[Asterisk-Users] GPL Violations (Was: Advice on OS Choice)

[James H. Thompson]

Brian West wrote:
>> The EULA is where the real teeth are -- prohibiting even people who
>> have purchased RHEL from using it in ways that RedHat prohibits.  For
>> example, it is not possible to purchase one copy of RHEL and install
>> it on two machines.  Nor are you allowed to run RHEL on a machine
>> without having purchased support.  I am unclear on how this is not a
>> further restriction on the code (and therefore prohibited by the
>> GPL) but the FSF appears unwilling to pursue the point.
>
> I do feel that those are violations of the GPL.  They can't place more
> restrictions on software that is already free via the GPL.  This is
> the exact reason I told RedHat to f$%k off.  They used the community
> to build a brand then said F$%K YOU, but here is Fedora which we will
> use to test new stuff that might make it into RedHat's high end
> products.  So basically you're a test community for future RedHat
> products if you run Fedora.
>

Not to aruge one way or the other, but there are a number of free RH Enterprise work-alike
distributions

    http://www.taolinux.org/

    http://www.whiteboxlinux.org/

etc.


Jim

James H. Thompson
jht at lj.net