On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:18, Simon Perreault wrote:
> On Thursday 02 June 2005 10:48, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > If your favorite choice is accepting a contract that imposes limits on
> > where you can install free software that itself has a license that says
> > additional restrictions cannot be imposed, then by all means pick RHEL.
>
> If you want to explain that sentence, which I am probably too stupid to
> understand, then by all means do.
Almost all of the software in the RHEL distribution is covered by the
GPL, which elaborates on your rights to copy and redistribute the
software within its own terms and conditions and includes the following
literal text in section 6:
"You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients'
exercise of the rights granted herein."
I am not a lawyer, but I don't see any way to reconcile this statement
with a restriction that any particular copy of it may only be installed
on one computer, even if that restriction comes from a separate
contract that provides your service agreement.
Of course, as long as distributions like Centos exist, we can assume
that the RH restrictions only apply to their artwork and trademarked
name.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
