Re: Q: RH enterprise products license
Gerald Henriksen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.phoebe |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:29:13 -0600, you wrote: >You aren't restricted by the additional licenses added to GPL software, >you are restricted by the subscription license agreement. The software >source code is freely available, as required by the GPL, on the Red Hat >ftp site. The subscription & RHN service is not freely distributed, and >that subscription license states that Red Hat will not support any >system that does not have a subscription. > >So it seems to me the only way to get RHEL without paying for it is to >download the SRPMS, build them yourself, and never get Red Hat involved >at all. The conditions of the GPL apply to binary (object code or executable) distribution as well as the source code. So you cannot restrict the copying of the binary version of the GPL'd parts of RHEL. So you would only have to build the parts of RHEL whose licenses permit the RHEL restrictions. -- Phoebe-list mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list