Re: RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

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On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 02:17 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:02 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Johnny Hughes wrote:
> >  > 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.
> 
> I think the problem is that what is thought in these arguments to be a
> restriction on the software is not considered a legal restriction on
> the software.

I think you guys are going about it the wrong way. You're so focused on
the *contents* of the packages that you're missing the packages
*themselves*. Could the signing of the packages be considered a "work",
and therefore distribution of said signed packages be a violation of
copyright law?

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet@xxxxxxxxx>

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