CentOS - May 2005 - Re: Demonizing generic Linux issues as Fedora Core-only issues -- WAS: Hi, Bryan

From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at
hughesjr.com>
> We would not build and distribute either of these things if they were
> not released via the GPL.  The RPMS/SRPMS that we are distributing are
> indeed GPL.  We firmly agree with RedHat on this issue (that only GPL
> things should be distributed).
The problem is that many distros are statically building MySQL 4 with some
non-GPL components.  Some of the terms/definitions on static v. dynamic
building changed from MySQL 3 to MySQL 4.

I'll look into some of the latest Fedora Development and see if they are
approaching such now.  But one thing Red Hat seems to be doing is avoiding
a lot of the MySQL 4 developments because of MySQL AB's changes.
> CentOS will also not include in our repos anything that is not allowed
> to be re-distributed due to patents or US DMCA.
And I've noted that.

I said that's why I don't use "pure" Fedora (Core, Extras) or
Debian-bases
(both RHEL and CentOS fall into that as well), and avoid both Livna.ORG
and DAG in a commercial environment.



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Bryan J. Smith   mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org