GPL and RHEL, AGAIN

nosp nosp at xades.com
Fri Nov 7 17:20:17 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 17:04, nosp wrote:
> 2) RHEL software has to be subject to the GPL because it's distributed
> with software that is GPL.

Before people point out my oversimplification here I thought I'd do it
myself: it depends on how the GPL & non-GPL software interact.  As has
been previous noted here, things like artwork and text files can stand
on their own without, say, the kernel and so do not become GPL'd.

See http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

I'll stop now as this is OT.





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