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Is UnitedLinux Violating The GPL?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the have-they-released-anything dept.

mmayberry writes "NewsForge has posted an article, UnitedLinux might not be very GPL-friendly. With a closed beta that includes an NDA, UL may be on the verge of angering a large part of their target market. You'd think that the likes of Suse, Turbo, SCO, and Conectiva would get the point by now..."

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  1. On a side note... by chill · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    Ransom Love, the once head of Caldera, claimed he was stepping down from Caldera to head up UL.

    However, he has since disappeared from the scene. UL claims he never worked for them and has hired someone from "outside" for the position he was after.

    While heading Caldera, now the SCO Group, he had a great deal of input on the direction of UL.

    Maybe, with his non-involvement, this can get sorted out properly.

    UL also stated they will be using SuSE as a base distro and YAST2 as the installer, with contributions from the others adding on.

    Also, both RedHat and Mandrake are set to release new versions any day now. And RedHat's Advanced Server is selling better than expected, with a reported 8,000 units sold so far.

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  2. Re:Research before you speak by fault0 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    > for the record, I call it "Linux", not "FNU/Linux" nor "GNU/Apache/X/Linux", since, although all these tools and more are part of Linux, Linux is Linux is Linux. Thanks for the work thus far in what you have contributed to LINUX.

    Exactly, if Linus himself doesn't care about this, why should users?