Hi,
The GNU/Linux Users Group of National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur is now accessible at http://www.glug-nith.org/. It is still early days and a lot of things are left to be done.
One thing we have not yet put is a copyright notice. Since we have taken a few sentences here and there from Wikipedia and http://www.gnu.org/, would that be an infringement of copyright? Or do we need to give Wikipedia's name in the credit and mention that they hold the rights.
Secondly, will it be ok to distribute RHEL ISOs on the site? It is our understanding that since Linux is GPL'ed it should not be a problem, although Redhat's support would not be available. Are we correct?
Bye, Debarshi
On Monday 01 May 2006 14:08, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
Secondly, will it be ok to distribute RHEL ISOs on the site? It is our understanding that since Linux is GPL'ed it should not be a problem, although Redhat's support would not be available. Are we correct?
No you cannot distribute RHEL ISOs i.e. the compiled binaries. The EULA that you sign explicitly forbids you from distributing RHEL binaries. AFAIK you can distribute the SRPMs. But why do you wish to distribute RHEL when a perfectly good alternative, Cent OS, is available? It is built from RHEL's SRPMs so there is very little difference between RHEL and Cent OS.
If anyone knows of significant differences between Cent OS and RHEL, please enlighten us.
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