Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

Le mar 02/09/2003 à 05:45, Tom "spot" Callaway a écrit :
> On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:23, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> > Le mar 02/09/2003 à 04:24, Stephen Smoogen a écrit :
> > > On 1 Sep 2003, Féliciano Matias wrote:
> > > 
> > > >
> > > >Also he tells us to ignore GPL/BSD license for binary packages.
> > > 
> > > I think I was the person here,
> > 
> > No :-)
> > 
> > It's about a previous post from Tom "spot" Callaway :
> > - "And to pre-empt the flamewars, no, this is not a violation of the
> > GPL. The source is still yours to do whatever you want with."
> > 
> > I interpret this like : For GPL program, the source is driven by the GPL
> > license and for the binary RedHat apply its own license (that is what
> > they want).
> 
> OK. I'm not a lawyer. I don't speak as the voice of Red Hat in these
> matters.

I know. You already state this.

>  Please refrain from drawing your own interpretations and
> claiming they came from me. If you have legal questions about RHEL's
> licensing, please send them to [email protected]

Already done and state somewhere here.

>  No, I don't think it is
> reasonable to expect a Red Hat lawyer to post on this thread. Red Hat's
> lawyers are quite busy these days, and even if they weren't, they don't
> usually lurk on technical beta lists.
> 
> If something in Red Hat's licensing bothers you, send [email protected]
> an email with your concerns.

This is why I send a mail to [email protected] yesterday, as you ask me
to do.
Since RedHat's lawyers are busy, i wait their reply until the next week.
After which i ask the FSF.

>  Neither I, or this mailing list, are
> appropriate outlets for such matters, and accordingly, neither are able
> to resolve any concerns one way or another.

This is a RHEL mailing list. I am right ?

Do you prefer the "ask slashdot" method ?


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> 
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