Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

Stephen Smoogen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.taroon
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31 Aug 2003, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

>On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 13:37, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Also not wanting to start a flamewar, I thank you for the good info.  I 
>> did not realize the GPL allowed for this, but now that I think about it I 
>> can't remember seeing anything in the GPL that would restrict RedHat from 
>> this. I am curious, is one required to renew the annual RHEL if they wish 
>> to continue using RedHat Advance Server, it appears from your quote that 
>> this is so?
>
>IANAL, but I know we ran our RHEL subscription agreements and contracts
>by the FSF before introducing it, and they did not have any problems
>with it.

I have the feeling that if the FSF were to say publically that it was ok 
it wouldnt do anything other than make PHOFB[1] say that the FSF were 
hipocrites or had been bought out by Red Hat. 

[1] People hooked on Free Beer.


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