They are probably referring to the fact that if you download an ISO of redhat and then distribute it you can NOT call it a official Red Hat Linux 7.x distribution. They recently changed the terms on the web site. This means that the CD's you get from cheapbytes can't be called Red Hat 7.x Linux. They have to have a different name. You can refer to the fact that these CD's are made from ISO's but you have to say you made them not Red Hat.
The media folks I am sure are not as clear on the distinction as some of us in the Linux community. You cannot after all "pirate" GPL'd software. It just has to do with someone downloading an ISO and what they call the downloaded ISO. That is my understaning and my opinion on this as arrived to by long flames/discussions on my LUG list. -----Original Message----- From: ABrady [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Piracy? I subscribe to an online news thingy. Today there was an announcement that Redhat is going to launch a Linux Advanced Server at Linuxworld. There was one line that I didn't quite understand and was hoping someone had more information on exactly what is being talked about: "Red Hat is also taking steps to halt piracy of its software, which is nevertheless based on the free Linux OS." Piracy of what? What kinds of steps? Not that it makes any difference to me because I fully believe that someone that writes the software has 100% right to determine its distribution (including source), licensing and so forth. I'm just wondered what's being discussed in the statement. -- We finally figured out how to totally eliminate blue-screen crashes. We made them red. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
