Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option
John <spam-awV0wQp4Vu3DYUAvPcDoSaaDwS/[email protected]>
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On Monday 01 September 2003 07:16, [email protected] wrote: > I personally have no concern what so ever with redhat not providing > binaries on their ftp/web site.. none at all. What concerns me is that I > have 3 cds full of GPL based software which I appear to have the right to > use for 1 year (after paying 1.5k for it), at the end of this year I can > either pay RedHat another 1.5k (or more if they raise the price) or > reformat my server. This is just a suprise to me is all, I did not think > such a usage restriction was possible with GPL based software. Does the GPL allow me to require that anyone who receives the software must pay me a fee and/or notify me? No..... http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesFreeSoftwareMeanUsingTheGPL -- My bits for Taroon: http://debian.merseine.nu/taroon/ -- Taroon-beta-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/taroon-beta-list