[CentOS] What happened to 6.1

Johnny Hughes

johnny at centos.org
Fri Oct 21 18:05:28 UTC 2011


On 10/21/2011 12:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Gary Greene
> <ggreene at minervanetworks.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> 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.
> 
> 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.

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