[ale] Re: Red Hat scare tactics

[Christopher Fowler]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:37:05AM -0400, Jason Day wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:58:26PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > images.  I believe they have a right to limit the distribution
> > of the total ISO to meet certain RH license guidelines.  Sure
> 
> Actually, this may not be correct.  Paragraph 2 of the GPL says, in
> part:
> 
>     These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
>     identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
>     and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
>     themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
>     sections when you distribute them as separate works.  But when you
>     distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work
>     based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the
>     terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend
>     to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of
>     who wrote it.
> 
> Note the parts saying "when you distribute them as separate works" and
> "distribute the same sections as part of a whole".  I think an ISO image
> could reasonably be considered a whole, thus requiring that it's either
> all GPL or none GPL.  Of course, IANAL, IMHO, YMMV, etc.

I don't think so.  All the GPL programs can be distributed on the
ISO or ftp, or whatever.  But I'm not giving the installer away for
free.  That is non-gpl code.  This is just an example.

> 
> Jason
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