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

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>  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.
>>
>> So, distributing the RPMS (the GPL ones) would probably be OK.
>>
>> Using them is also OK, so long as you PAY Red Hat on every machine 
>> where you use things that cam from RHN.
> 
> By why is adding a restriction to enforce that OK, unless it only 
> applies to the non-GPL'd portions?
> 
It is not a restriction, it is a agreement ... if you want to download 
the file from them, you agree to pay for it every place you use it.

If you don't want to do that, then you need to get your linux from some 
place else.



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