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What's the complaint?What's the complaint?Posted Mar 2, 2011 12:46 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)In reply to: What's the complaint? by AndreE Parent article: Red Hat's "obfuscated" kernel source
Yes and what does the GPL say about Red Hat's license agreement? Nothing. Maybe. Maybe not. The GPL says you are not allowed to add "additional restrictions" on the redistribution of GPL'd works. Red Hat and others argue that their subscription agreement is not an additional restriction. I argue that it is. I'd like a legal judgement or at least an opinion from the FSF, because it's not clear-cut to me.
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What's the complaint? Posted Mar 4, 2011 1:06 UTC (Fri) by jthill (guest, #56558) [Link] By signing that agreement, you did not bind them, and by signing that agreement, they did not bind you. The defining characteristic of a coercive offer is that if you refuse it, you're worse off than you were before they made it. That's not the case here. It's a perfectly good offer. They did not bind you by authority, they did not bind you by coercion, they did not bind you by any means. You bound yourself, for gain, in a completely voluntary and fully informed choice.
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