Good article John. It definitely "muddies the water" in my mind. Michael -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of inode0 Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:53 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Red Hat subscription agreement questions On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Ryan Lynch <ryan.b.lynch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 3) Is the RHN subscription agreement legally enforceable, given clause > 6 of the GPL: "You may not impose any further restrictions on the > recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein." Does the GPL forbid Red > Hat from imposing or enforcing the subscription agreement? Given clause 0, > I believe the answer is, for the third time, "yes": "Activities other than > copying, distribution, or modification are not covered by this License; they > are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted." > > In case issue #3 isn't clear, I have heard several people make the argument > that because RHEL 5 is distributed under the GPL, Red Hat cannot impose an > additional restriction on our company, via the subscription agreement, that > requires us to purchase subscriptions for every RH machine that our company > operates? You might find this exchange with the FSF interesting reading. http://macnugget.org/stuff/fsf-exchange.txt John -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
