[CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc
Daniel de Kok
me at danieldk.org
Sun Mar 23 13:31:50 UTC 2008
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> But they are not taking away any rights, you may distribute (the GPL
> portions) however you want. You may use it however you want. They are
> just charging for each copy.
Yes. But we never disagreed on that. But if you retrieve a copy of
GPL'ed software from RHN, you are allowed to redistribute it according
the terms of the GPL.
> You also brought up the redhat-logos rpm, with is NOT GPL. That
> particular RPM is required for system operation and they certainly can
> charge for each copy of that rpm that is run.
True, as I have stated in my previous e-mail.
> Of course, just using CentOS (or Scientific Linux, WBEL) will free you
> up from that payment issue anyway :D
Yes :). Making RHEL piracy kinda pointless ;).
-- Daniel
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