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by quags 1091 days ago
They sell software though that is mostly licensed under the GPL which has certain requirements regardless of if you give it a way free , support down stream projects financially or make an entire public company around it. I’m not sure if red hat can really stop rebuilds beyond ensuring all their trademarks are removed any more than Debian could suddenly stop ubuntu from using that as their starting point OS. RHEL is not free but as I understand it you are getting support from redhat, potentially some legal protections for another SCO type lawsuit, but you are not paying for Linux. I can’t license red hat Linux and get a non GPL license from red ha can I?
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Have any law suits from say the FSF or others been filed against Redhat for this action?