Advanced Server free?

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 02:56 pm, Eric Wood wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Crossman"
>
> > You have to purchase a license for each server you install it on.  It is
> > not free.  Only fedora is free.
>
> Um... it is free.  Otherwise http://www.whiteboxlinux.org guys would be
> doing something illegal.  The support isn't free.
>
> Remember, RH is a GPL compliant company.

GPL does not necessarily mean it's free. it means that they have to provide 
the source to the person they distribute the binay to. 

RH does better than that. They put their SRPMS publicly available FTP. 
The whiteboxlinux guys rebuild the SRPMS themselves (ie. the source), and 
re-distribute the RPM. 

RDB

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN