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

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Sun Mar 23 13:27:59 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 08:57 -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 13:46 +0100, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
> > <ivazqueznet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  I'm not talking about the spec file metadata, I'm talking about the
> > >  signature that's applied to the package itself.
> > 
> > A signature is just a special digest of the contents. I don't see how
> > that could be licensed differently.
> 
> And a painting of a landscape is just a special digest (or
> interpretation, if you prefer) of a landscape. It falls under copyright
> law, regardless of what laws the canvas or paint are required to follow.

Before anyone tears this apart *too* hard, I would like to apologize for
misrepresenting myself. I am not a lawyer, therefore I should have said
that this was only my opinion.

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

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