Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 02, 2003 03:40 AM
> The only drawback has been some disappointment from the mostly non-US members about the removal of packages with licensing issues.
I'm not disappointed.
I have always considered the care that Red Hat took with regard to licensing to be a plus.
In fact, that's one of the main reasons that I prefer Red Hat over certain other distributions. For example, I choose to avoid SuSE, who currently <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/sld/index.html" TITLE="suse.com">list the ability to run MS Office</a suse.com> as one of their selling points, and whose YaST software is non-GPL'd, and depends on a proprietary Qt license. Other distributions that I avoid for licensing or lock-in reasons include Lindows, and Xandros.
Along with Red Hat, I also consider Debian and Mandrake to be good in terms of safe licensing policies. Of course, there are many more good distributions.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 02, 2003 03:40 AMI'm not disappointed.
I have always considered the care that Red Hat took with regard to licensing to be a plus.
In fact, that's one of the main reasons that I prefer Red Hat over certain other distributions. For example, I choose to avoid SuSE, who currently <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/us/business/products/sld/index.html" TITLE="suse.com">list the ability to run MS Office</a suse.com> as one of their selling points, and whose YaST software is non-GPL'd, and depends on a proprietary Qt license. Other distributions that I avoid for licensing or lock-in reasons include Lindows, and Xandros.
Along with Red Hat, I also consider Debian and Mandrake to be good in terms of safe licensing policies. Of course, there are many more good distributions.
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