Yet mysql is GPL licensed and there are several large companies around it. Red hat is a big business all around GPL software
Sure there is a place for other licenses but there are big advantages to GPL, where it puts everyone participating in a project on the same level
Actually most Red Hat software are under Apache license. They used GPL for RHEL because of linux
I would imagine that Red Hat chose GPL not because of Linux, but because of the majority of utility software being GNU software.
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Yet mysql is GPL licensed and there are several large companies around it.
Red hat is a big business all around GPL software
Sure there is a place for other licenses but there are big advantages to GPL, where it puts everyone participating in a project on the same level
Actually most Red Hat software are under Apache license. They used GPL for RHEL because of linux
I would imagine that Red Hat chose GPL not because of Linux, but because of the majority of utility software being GNU software.