Re: RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

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Johnny Hughes wrote:

And in this case, the precedents of hundreds years of contractual law
would have to be overturned. The GPL license covers source code
access. The RHEL license covers binary access without restricting your
rights towards source code.

I don't recall any distinction between what you can do with binaries and source mentioned in the GPL beyond the requirement that sources must be made available too. And section 6 (of GPLv2) states explictly that "You may not impose any further restrictions...". Of course not all of RHEL is covered by the GPL.


They are not imposing any restrictions on the software ... you have signed an agreement that as long as you are entitled to get updates from RHN that you will not do those things (it is an if/then statement).

But those things involve restrictions on the software.

> It
is a contract, no one is forcing you to sign it. If you do sign it, then you are obligated to to meet the requirements in it.

If you don't like the conditions, then cancel the subscription and you can use their software without updates.

It's not a matter of liking it or not, I just don't understand how someone can distribute software with a license that says as a condition of redistribution you can't impose further restrictions along with a required contract that imposes further restrictions - regardless of a tie-in with a subscription.

Red Hat is a great open source company, it is because of the way they distribute their source code that CentOS can exist.

No argument there, but restrictions are restrictions.

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  Les Mikesell
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