Thanks Steve! This helps. The company that I work in has provided a iso image which does not have these in the same.Is there any idea, if it's uploaded anywhere on the internet. Thanks! Rohit On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Steve Phillips <steve.phillips@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Rohit khaladkar > <rohit.khaladkar@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > Hi!I have a couple of questions : > > > > 1)Where would I get the GPL licenses for red hat 5.2. Can anyone point me > > to > > a link ? > > > They should be included on the media (CD ?) if you have it. > > > > > > 2)Is one GPL license enough for all the rpm's or do we need to have a GPL > > license individually ? > > > Each software package should come with its own license. Its important to > note that not all software included with many linux distributions is > covered > by the GPL, some have different licensing criteria, such as BSD or apache > licence (to name a couple, I believe perl also has a number of different > licence types) > > When you install a package, it should also install a copy of the licence in > somewhere like /usr/share/doc/package-name, altho, this may vary from > software to software. > > Also, when we talk about 'software', in the linux world the distribution > (redhat 5.2) is simply a collection of various peoples software, of which > the linux kernel is only one small part. And you can't really define it as > 'per rpm' as many rpms may go to make up one particular package which is > licenced as a whole. > > Sorry if this wasn't the answer you wanted to hear :-) > > -- > Steve. > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
