Quoting Ben Tilly (bti...@gmail.com): > Item 1 of the OSD says, "The license shall not restrict any party from > selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software > distribution containing programs from several different sources. The > license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale." > > Red Hat's trademark license fails this provision as badly as you could want.
Last I checked, every source code RPM in RHEL is genuinely open source except for _non-software_ SRPMs redhat-logos and anaconda-images. Those non-software RRPMs turn out to have mildly restrictive proprietary licensing, requiring that all commercial redistribution respect a company-issued trademark-usage policy on the company Web site. Compiling the OS does not, fortunately, require the specific contents of those SRPMs (RH-branded image files, IIRC). Substituting different contents and then compiling gets you an RHEL rebuild from identical souce -- e.g., CentOS, Scientific Linux, etc. So, of course you can, irrespective of what Nigel suggested, redistribute RHEL without a trademark license from Red Hat. _And_ all of the software is open source. When this came up in the early 2000s, I FAQed it. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/RedHat/rhel-isos.html (I found the upthread barrage of rhetorical questions a waste of time and unproductive, FWIW.) -- Cheers, "It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking Rick Moen than think your way into a new way of acting." r...@linuxmafia.com -- Jerry Sternin McQ! (4x80) _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss