Robin Stephenson (robin.stephenson@blackwell.co.uk)
01 Apr 1999 12:13:09 +0100
>>>>> On Thu, 01 Apr 1999 11:26:42 +0100
>>>>> "Oleg" == Oleg Gusev <oleg@usm.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
Oleg> I have heard that people having alphas can get
Oleg> REDHAT-BASE and REDHAT-USR 1 user licenses for home/personal use.
Oleg> Also there are rumours that these people can apply for
Oleg> EGCS-O and G77-O license PAKs to use these compilers on their
Oleg> computers.
Oleg> Can somebody confirm that ?
Is this an `April Fools' message? The Red Hat Linux distribution is
freely available for download (eg from <ftp://ftp.redhat.com>,
<http://sunsite.org.uk/Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/>). Similarly, egcs and
g77 are also freely (and widely) available -- start at
<http://freshmeat.net/>. The licensing information will be in a file
called COPYING.
I have never heard the phrase `license pak' in connection with any
Linux-related product.
Caveat: some small parts of Red Hat are proprietary, and can only be
bought from Red Hat, rather than freely downloaded. I think that this
only applies to the Intel version of the distribution, however (things
like BRU, a backup utility).
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