Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Hi
>
> Red Hat clearly possesses exclusive legal rights to Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux, namely the exclusive legal right to distribute RHEL
> in binary form, and most importantly, the accompanying exclusive
> legal right to pass along the ISV certifications associated with the
> RHEL binary distribution. Red Hat uses a legal vehicle, a cleverly
> crafted license it calls a subscription agreement, to enable it to
> possess these exclusive legal rights in a product that can continue
> to be marketed as open source.
Quoting Ian from Progeny doesnt mean anything here. Trademark
guidelines are established for many other open source projects
including Mozilla and Apache. Red Hat merely asks you not to
distribute any products under its name.
yes it does mean lot of things and pl dont confuse Mozilla or apache
license as thats lots original work and you dont have to pay to get
patches on time and ISV certification ......as with redhat's
>
>
> I an NOT talking about shipping some propreitry software .....I am
> referring to supporting ...so please dont mis quote me or be more off
> topic !!
I am talking about documenting proprietary software as part of a
project which supports open source software exclusively. I havent
misquoted you at all and whether proprietary software should be
documented as part of the Fedora docs project is not a off topic
discussion.
As far I rememeber orginal discussion was about alternative to current
documenation system specially referring to to submission process
>
> "The goal of The Fedora Project
> <
http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/terminology.html> is to work
> with the Linux community to build a *complete, general purpose*
> operating system"
>
> "Complete" which means fedora can be used in any enviorment that
> includes data center or enterprises... many people companies
> specially ISP run on fedora in their data center ....
You missed out the part about being "exclusively free software"
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/
" The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community
to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from
open source software."
"I guess redhat does not treats fedora as lab rat for upcoming rhel
solely "
straw man argument since RHEL documentation doesnt cover proprietary
software either
check this
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/oracle-guide/s1-ora-nodes.html
ps : When did you join Redhat ? Congratulations :-)
regards
Rahul