GPL license for all rpm's.

[Rohit khaladkar]

Thanks Steve! This helps. The company that I work in has provided a iso
image which does not have these in the same.Is there any idea, if it's
uploaded anywhere on the internet.

Thanks!
Rohit


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Steve Phillips
<steve.phillips at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Rohit khaladkar
> <rohit.khaladkar at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Hi!I have a couple of questions :
> >
> > 1)Where would I get the GPL licenses for red hat 5.2. Can anyone point me
> > to
> > a link ?
>
>
> They should be included on the media (CD ?) if you have it.
>
>
> >
> > 2)Is one GPL license enough for all the rpm's or do we need to have a GPL
> > license individually ?
>
>
> Each software package should come with its own license. Its important to
> note that not all software included with many linux distributions is
> covered
> by the GPL, some have different licensing criteria, such as BSD or apache
> licence (to name a couple, I believe perl also has a number of different
> licence types)
>
> When you install a package, it should also install a copy of the licence in
> somewhere like /usr/share/doc/package-name, altho, this may vary from
> software to software.
>
> Also, when we talk about 'software', in the linux world the distribution
> (redhat 5.2) is simply a collection of various peoples software, of which
> the linux kernel is only one small part. And you can't really define it as
> 'per rpm' as many rpms may go to make up one particular package which is
> licenced as a whole.
>
> Sorry if this wasn't the answer you wanted to hear :-)
>
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