[CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 12:28:27 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 07:02 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > I think you guys are going about it the wrong way. You're so focused on
> > the *contents* of the packages that you're missing the packages
> > *themselves*. Could the signing of the packages be considered a "work",
> > and therefore distribution of said signed packages be a violation of
> > copyright law?
> 
> Well ... the general consensus is that is not the case, and that the 
> SPEC file is covered under the same license as the rest of the source 
> code unless it is specifically licensed differently.

I'm not talking about the spec file metadata, I'm talking about the
signature that's applied to the package itself.

-- 
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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