Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux
From: Ed Murphy (emurphy42_at_socal.rr.com)
Date: 11/07/03
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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:05:00 GMT
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 14:19:28 -0500, Jeffrey Silverman wrote:
> Your original statement said that the GPL says that anyone should be able
> "to buy the Redhat disks and then load them onto their web server and
> allow anyone else to download them for free." This is a misunderstanding
> of the GPL.
>
> The Red Hat disks are *binary program disks*. They are Red Hat's
> property. All Red Hat has to do to comply with the GPL is to publish the
> full source for those disks. They can do whatever they want with the
> binaries, including limiting distribution of the binary disks.
>
> Please, someone vindicate me on this!
Okay, I will! The GPL does *not* say "you must give away your product
for free". It says "*if* you distribute your product, then you must
offer source, and you must allow the person receiving the source to do
anything he wants with it".
Volkswagen could place the Bug under the GPL, and continue selling Bugs
for $15,000 apiece - but they would be required to give away a full set
of schematics with each one. Furthermore, if some altruistic soul used
those schematics to build their own Bugs and give them away for free,
then the GPL would prevent Volkswagen from stopping them.
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