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On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:53:45 +1000, Gregory Toomey wrote:

> It was a dark and stormy night, and Jacob Heider managed to scribble:

>> On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 15:05:21 +1000, Gregory Toomey wrote:

>>> They seem to forget that the nerds use Linux at home, college, AS WELL AS
>>> in the enterprise. Reh Hat is forcing users to buy support with their
>>> latest offering, & breaking the GPL. So the nerds that made Red Hat what

>> I what sense are they "breaking the GPL"? The GPL was designed to product
>> their right to make money by selling software licensed under it (in
>> addition to other things).

> The new Redhat licensing forces to pay for support if you use the product. If you use the software & dont pay, you are in breach of the Redhat Licence.
> This is in breach of the GPL, which always allows derivative works to be distributed for free.
> (You can pay of course, but there must always be a free version).

Bzzt, wrong.  Here is the license for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
version 3:

http://www.redhat.com/licenses/rhel_us_3.html

Look at Appendix 1 (Appendix 2 is very similar).  Section 1 covers
all the GPL components, and backs up the GPL in a few different
ways.  Section 2 covers Red Hat's proprietary images.  Section 6
covers third-party software, which is not formally part of "The
Software" but is distributed with it for convenience; this software
may be non-GPL, but if you don't want to use it, then you simply
don't (and in fact are not allowed to) install it.