From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 03:00:42 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFFDF16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 03:00:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx07.covadmail.net [63.65.120.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 563D543D54 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 03:00:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 19927 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2004 11:00:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO covad.net) (strick@covad.net@68.164.174.22) by sun-qmail02 with SMTP; 9 Jan 2004 11:00:34 -0000 Message-ID: <3FFE89D5.7090801@covad.net> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 03:00:37 -0800 From: Dan Strick User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: What is the end of FreeBSD ?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 11:00:43 -0000 >> > RedHat is a company that tried to make money by giving away their > product. They found they couldn't make enough money this way, so they > stopped giving it away for free. >> I browsed the Red Hat web site and saw the announcements for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux product ($$$) and the Fedora Project (free). Is Linux no longer subject to the terms of the GNU copyleft license that would have required Red Hat to redistribute the basic Linux part of its new Enterprise product for a nominal fee? It doesn't look like the Fedora version qualifies unless it contains all the modifications that Red Hat makes to the basic Linux in the Enterprise product. Dan Strick strick@covad.net