Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2773 mails)

[jpennington@xxxxxxxxx (Jon Pennington)]

Hi!  Good to hear from the illusive Alpha Female :].

I hope you don't mind the public re-post here, but what you said was Soo
relevant to my point.  For a switch, I'm not being sarcastic, either...

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, you wrote:
>Morning, Jon -
>
>> Stop bitching every time somebody tries to make a living.
>
>Jon, if ya read the fine print (TM), ya might notice the problem isn't
>so much cost, it's license violation. 
>
>Nobody's bitching about making a living. The question of on whose back
>that living is being made,   however, will eventually come into play.
>
>Alpha

I'm saying that it's not a license violation.  If no GPL code was used in the
proprietary cluster management software (that which TurboLinux is making their
living from, in this example), it's perfectly legal.

<shameless plug> We sell lots of third-party software at Atipa; XiG's
Accellerated X, Phoenix Technologies' DMZ-style firewall, we're an OSS
reseller, and VMWare, among other things. </plug>  The only thing that sets the
Turbo people away from the other companies I just mentioned is that Turbo also
packages a fully-functional Linux distribution with their clustering software. 
Perhaps if TL Cluster were a separate product from their brand of Linux, this
wouldn't be a problem.

Turbo has done what countless other companies have done before; take Red Hat
Linux almost verbatim, recompiled it, and added a few tweaks.  It should be
noted that TL Cluster (IIRC) is based on RH6.0, which is almost 100% GPL. 
They're not making money or restricting the distribution, they're selling the
*tools* that come with it.  I applaud them for ingenuity, but maybe their
packaging scheme does need a little bit of re-tooling...


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