[Sussex] Access to RHEL updates without subscription

Chris Jones cmsj at tenshu.net
Tue May 31 12:35:53 UTC 2005


Hi

On Tue, 31 May, 2005 13:12, Paul Tansom said:
> for use on a single machine, but whether it is able to limit what you do
> with the binary RPM once it is on your machine I've not looked into, the

If the software is GPL they can't place any further restrictions on you
than the GPL does. However, the one loophole they exploit is trademarks -
they can prevent you from distributing/using their marks, which is how
things like White Box (RHEL rebuilt for free from SRPMS) exist, they just
strip out everything that says/shows "Red Hat" and replace it.

Cheers,
-- 
Chris Jones
  cmsj at tenshu.net
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