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RE: [cobalt-users] Cobalt Racks Question
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Cobalt Racks Question
- From: Dom Latter <DLatter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon Apr 9 23:29:14 2001
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> > Dan, in what way is the Cobalt distribution different from all
> > the other GNU / Linux distributions? If Cobalt / Sun are saying
> > that their code is not GPL then there's a lot of people out there
> > that I'm sure would be most interested, starting with Messrs
> > Stallman and Torvalds.
>
> I never said it wasn't.
AIUI, all the other distributions are GPL - which is why Cobalt
can take the work Red Hat have done and base their product on it.
> The Cobalt GUI and the scripts that make it run
> belong to Cobalt. Copying their software backend would be a copyright
> violation.
I don't see it, sorry. Cobalt's GUI is distributed "as part of a whole
which is a work based on the Program" which are the exact words of the GPL.
I couldn't describe the situation better if I tried.