On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 03:52:15PM -0500, Gerald Henriksen wrote:
> >* Customer is allowed to install RHEL on any number of machines he wants
> >(sans Java)
> >* Because this is in breach of the service agreement, Customer is not
> >allowed to receive support from Red Hat
>
> The service agreement *cannot* remove rights the customer has under
> the sofware's license. If the software is under the GPL then no
> breach of the service agreement is possible because the service
> agreement itself would be invalid for putting restrictions on the
> redistribution of GPL'd software.
Yes, this is the tricky part. But if you view the issues of software
and support *separately* (and the licenses really are separate), it
is all OK.
I'm not quite happy about this idea, as this concept can be
easily extended to disallow redistribution and in effect revoke
the GPL rights (is Microsoft listening? ;-)
Luckily this is not the case for RHEL, we even have the luxury of
free downloads.
Mirek
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