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

Sun Mar 23 15:18:11 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

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?

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