[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

Gary Greene ggreene at minervanetworks.com
Fri Oct 21 17:28:26 UTC 2011


On 10/21/11 10:25 AM, "Johnny Hughes" <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 12:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> They have created an optional channel in several of those groupings that
>>> is only accessible via RHN and they do not put those RPMS on any ISOs
>>> ... and they have completely changed their "Authorized Use Policy" so
>>> that we can NOT login to RHN and use anything that is not on a public
>>> FTP server or on an ISO set ... effectively cutting us off from the
>>> ability to check anything on the optional channel.
>> 
>> I've never quite understood how anything containing any GPL-covered
>> code could have any redistribution/use restrictions added.
>> 
> Trust me ... the Linux Foundation thinks it is OK, so we are SOL.

I'd rather get the opinion of the FSF (those whom wrote the license) instead
of LF, as they don't matter as much, really.

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