[Novalug] RHEL contents

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Sun May 9 17:54:14 EDT 2010


On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Peter Larsen <
plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 12:04 -0700, Walt Smith wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I haven't tried any of the RHEL..  just Fedora.
> > Purely a curiosity Q:
> >
> > Could someone briefly tell me if the RHEL releases contain
> > any proprietary code such as drivers, media codecs, etc,
> > (other than the RH copyrighted stuff such as logos or
> > opening screens etc) ?   or "closed" applications ?
> > ( apps that are distinct from the usual type of releases
> > in that they are not under any GPL ).
>
> This is why we have CentOS. It doesn't have the Redhat Copyrighted stuff
> in it (which is mainly logos to my understanding - redhat clustered
> servers is open source. If I'm wrong, please correct me here).
>
> So to get a true open/free version of RHEL go with CentOS.


I would argue that RHEL is open and free (as speech), otherwise CentOS
couldn't exist.


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