[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 18:22:26 UTC 2011


On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> You'd need a copyright owner to initiate legal action.   And the FSF
>> generally is more concerned about source availability although
>> binaries are clearly derived from source and covered by the same
>> copyright, and I can't see any exception at least in GPLv2 about being
>> able to put additional redistribution/use restrictions on covered
>> binaries.
>>
>
> They are not restricting your right to distribute, they are restricting
> your access to RHN if you choose to distribute.

Which is explicitly imposing additional restrictions.  Which is
explicitly prohibited in section 6.  I don't see any exceptions
relating to what the consequences of those restrictions might be.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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