On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 11:49 +1100, Tim Edwards wrote:
Just out of interest what do Debian,
Debian does _not_. Debian actually has stricter guidelines than Red Hat on a few things marking them "NON-FREE", although they do adhere to the same guidelines on software that creators mark as "non-redistributable" overall.
You have to tap 3rd party Debian repositories, which then results in repository hell. But at least with the official Debian repositories, I'm getting redistributable software.
[ I.e., I professionally deploy Debian as well as Fedora/RHEL/CentOS ]
Ubuntu and others distribute that is illegal?
Many Debian-based distros include Java, Multimedia, ProDVD, etc...
Gentoo gets around some of these by not storing the software on-site, although I've found them guilty of redistributing licenses as well as source code from their repository they do not have the right to do.
And even if they do how does having illegal software help get around repository problems?
Because you only need to go to the _official_ repository. That avoids repository mixing and the resulting "repository hell."