Shawn wrote:
On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 16:19, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
They do, if you agree to allow them to do so. The subscriptions on those product lines have such conditions: read them and you will learn that I'm talking truth. Besides, I have also been on the phone with a very nice lady from RedHat France who, unfortunately, confirmed this :|
This is wrong. At least for software written by other people, RedHat may be able to add special conditions for their own software, GPL or not. But they cannot place additional licensing restrictions on other people's software without those people's permission.
But that can place restrictions on RHEN. So if you don't follow trhe agreement terms ( like all machines running RHEL are subscribed) they can cancel *_ALL_* your RHEN subscriptions. Since you are in "material breach" you don't get a refund either.
So the cannot restrict the GPL software, but if they learn you are excercising you right under the GPL, you loose RHEN :)
I'm still waiting on clarification from Red Hat on this though.
What mist I change in RHEL-WS, so I can use it on another machine that isn't subscribed (say a laptop with the desktop subscribed) and not loose RHEN on subscribed systems.
-Thomas
