[Fwd: Wikipidia - Goodbye Red Hat and Fedora]

[Les Mikesell]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>>> The free
>>> availability of binaries is never a requirement for any of the free and
>>> open source licenses.
>> This is what RedHat propaganda is telling you.
> 
> I've done several papers in Law School specifically on software
> licensing and analysis of GPL and related licenses. Rahul's statement
> is correct -- no licenses require availability of binaries.
> 
> Might be awkward or less than helpful, but it's comfortably within the
> rules of the license.

How does that clause "You may not impose any further restrictions on the 
recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein." mesh with the 
further restrictions that Red Hat imposes?  The GPL does not distinguish 
between binaries and source in the required terms.

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   Les Mikesell
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