[ale] Re: Red Hat scare tactics

[Jonathan Glass]

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

>On Friday 17 October 2003 03:23 pm, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
>  
>
>>On Friday 17 October 2003 02:25 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:46, Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
>>>
>>>This is a big part of the reason for the Fedora distribution.
>>>
>>>Currently, there are a few rpm packages that glue in the RedHat
>>>trademarked logo's and name around the system. The splash screens on
>>>boot and X startup are the two big ones. There are other locations that
>>>use different RedHat TM'ed logo stuff. All of it gets put in
>>>/usr/share/pixmaps/redhat. It is provided by the package redhat-logos.
>>>Pulling out that package should get rid of all of the RedHat trademarked
>>>stuff.
>>>
>>>That package is also NOT under the GPL:
>>>      
>>>
>>Ahh!  This I can understand them restricting.  If that is the only part of
>>the distribution that is not free, I can handle it.  Cool-o.
>>    
>>
>
>To follow up, I just did a query on my desktop system and didn't see anything 
>that didn't look open.  I can't wait to run it on a RH Enterprise system.
>
>Here's the query I ran.  It's kinda cute (and should be all one line with 
>single spaces at the line breaks): 
>
>rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}: %{LICENSE}\n' | grep -iv 
>"GPL\|MIT\|freeware\|BSD\|XFree86\|public domain\|Poetic\|Free\|Public 
>Domain\|Artistic\|GNU General Public License\|distributable\|MPL\|Apache 
>Software License\|Distributable\|Apache-style"
>
>Michael
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