Johnny Hughes wrote:
copyright law?
Well ... the general consensus is that is not the case, and that the
SPEC file is covered under the same license as the rest of the source
code unless it is specifically licensed differently.
So, distributing the RPMS (the GPL ones) would probably be OK.
Using them is also OK, so long as you PAY Red Hat on every machine
where you use things that cam from RHN.
By why is adding a restriction to enforce that OK, unless it only
applies to the non-GPL'd portions?
It is not a restriction, it is a agreement ... if you want to download
the file from them, you agree to pay for it every place you use it.
Agreeing to a restriction doesn't make it any less of a restriction, and
it isn't the end user's agreement that matters, it is the one doing the
software redistribution that can't add restrictions.
If you don't want to do that, then you need to get your linux from some
place else.
I thought if you didn't follow the terms of the GPL you couldn't
redistribute at all.
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Les Mikesell
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