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

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