From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> This is not really true. We will probably never have everything that FC
> has as added features ... but CentOS-4 has several added features and we
> have been out for only a 3 months (so, not required to wait a year).
Oh, sorry, I should have clarified.
What I meant by "wait a year" was the time from the first .0 or .1
Fedora Core releases that a new version of RHEL/CentOS is based on.
E.g., FC2 came out in May 2004, FC3 in November 2004.
RHEL/CentOS 4 didn't follow until 2005.
> We even have some features (mysql compiled postfix, NX/freeNX,
> and soon MySQL-Administrator / MySQL-Query Builder) that are not
> yet part of FC or FC Extras at all.
Actually, some of this stuff will _never_ be included in FC/RHEL because
of licensing issues with the fact that MySQL is GPL. This is well
documented in a lot of places. Red Hat is the only distributor (although
I haven't checked Debian) fully honoring the terms MySQL AB sets on
its GPL releases of MySQL 4, which include not building and redistributing
certain items.
It's one of those things that Red Hat also gets chastized on, and one
of the reasons I don't use DAG (or Livna.ORG) at businesses. Anything
that has GPL licensing/mixing issues, "only for non-profit use" or otherwise
is "questionable" use of patents is the reason why I stick with "pure"
Fedora Core+Extras or Debian.
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Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx
