On 20/06/16 18:50, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
On 2016-06-20 18:43:44 +0200 (+0200), Zane Bitter wrote:
The binaries are free-as-in-beer - IIUC you can't redistribute them. The
source code, of course, remains free-as-in-speech as it has always been.
(It's easy to forget the distinction when you work in Python all day and
there are no binaries, but it's the source code that counts.) And of course
there are freely-distributable binaries built from that source available in
the form of CentOS.
[...]
Not to go too far down this rabbit hole, but as a
long-time-away-from-Red-Hat user my (possibly quite outdated)
experience was that RHEL included some non-free/proprietary software
distributed alongside other free-as-in-speech software. If this is
still true, it would be a significant mischaracterization to claim
that the "source code" for RHEL as a whole is consistently free.
That isn't my understanding, but it's hard to give a definitive answer
without knowing what kinds of non-free software you're referring to
(since I know there have been fierce disagreements even e.g. within
Debian on topics like firmware blobs). Certainly if anything in
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main bothers you then you'll
probably be unhappy.
There *is* a "Supplementary" channel that includes non-free software -
IBM Java (ikr? apparently that's a real thing), certain CJK fonts...
that kind of random, obscure stuff - but you have to download a separate
DVD and/or enable a separate yum repo that is disabled by default.
You'll never need to go near it.
But e.g. if a user wants to install the proprietary nVidia driver, RH
tells them to go download it from nVidia.[1] It's not shipped in RHEL or
even the Supplementary channel.
cheers,
Zane.
[1] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5258 (paywalled, sorry):
If
_all_ software provided by RHEL is also now included under free and
open licenses, then I'm thrilled and may be more inclined to give it
a try again in the future.
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