Subscriptions are not licenses. It is a support contract. There is no "free Fedora subscriptions" available. You can just download it and use it without any support contracts in place.
Can it really be a partnership when one partner retains full legal control?
Sure. Legal administration is many cases handled by a single party. Sun with Openoffice.org , Canonical with Ubuntu and so on. Moreover Fedora doesnt ship any packages with questionable licenses or patent issues as a matter of idealogy and not just legal problems. Otherwise shipping many gratis proprietary packages wouldnt be a issue at all.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives for details.
Ubuntu's Dapper Drake will be supported for five years. Obviously, Ubuntu does not see the same conflict between cutting edge and stability as RedHat.
In a way they did. Dapper Drake was delayed was six weeks or so for precisely this reason and had explicit goals to not introduce any new features during the development tree Only Dapper Drake is long term supported in all the Ubuntu releases so far and the next release is being done in a very short time with "risky" new stuff to compensate for the lock down in the previous release.
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Yes, If I can help you in anyway, feel me to drop me a mail. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RahulSundaram
Max Spevack is NOT the lead developer. He is the board leader for Fedora. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack
Great questions. Yes indeed, Fedora has thought about that. The last status report for the licensing audit was https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-bo ard/2006-August/msg00227.html
Subscriptions are not licenses. It is a support contract. There is no "free Fedora subscriptions" available. You can just download it and use it without any support contracts in place.
Can it really be a partnership when one partner retains full legal control?s and http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives for details.
Sure. Legal administration is many cases handled by a single party. Sun with Openoffice.org , Canonical with Ubuntu and so on. Moreover Fedora doesnt ship any packages with questionable licenses or patent issues as a matter of idealogy and not just legal problems. Otherwise shipping many gratis proprietary packages wouldnt be a issue at all. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guideline
Ubuntu's Dapper Drake will be supported for five years. Obviously, Ubuntu does not see the same conflict between cutting edge and stability as RedHat.
In a way they did. Dapper Drake was delayed was six weeks or so for precisely this reason and had explicit goals to not introduce any new features during the development tree Only Dapper Drake is long term supported in all the Ubuntu releases so far and the next release is being done in a very short time with "risky" new stuff to compensate for the lock down in the previous release.