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Article #17Re: RedHat CEO says home users shouldn't use Linux
From: Ed Murphy
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:30
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:30
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On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:56:00 +1000, Gregory Toomey wrote: > See http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=83248&threshold=0&commentsort=0&tid=110&tid=126&tid=163&tid=187&mode=thread&pid=7287737#7287763 > > "People's complaints with RHAT's GPL compliance doesn't have anything to > do with providing the source. It has to do with the bundling of RHEL > with support contracts. The support contract restricts how many servers > you can install RHEL on at once. By bundling RHEL with a support > contract that restricts redistribution, RHEL itself violates the GPL." Here's one of the replies from that same site: "They do not restrict redistribution. They void the support contract if you are *using* more instances of it than you pay for. You still have every right to redistribute the software, and if you redistribute it to someone outside your organization they can install it and use it and you will not even be in violation of the support agreement." Now you can certainly complain up and down about how this is Evil Corporate Behavior, if you like. (It sounds reasonable to me: "you want to use extra copies, fine, but you're on your own.") But I don't think it actually violates the GPL.
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