Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
Posted Aug 2, 2023 19:46 UTC (Wed) by mb (subscriber, #50428)In reply to: Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view by pizza
Parent article: Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view
>along with the actual license authors, say that what RH is doing is perfectly in line with
>the letter of the GPL.
Yes. That's what I also said here.
RH is Ok, but for different reasons than what you said. They do publicly distribute all sources of all the GPLed work that they gather, possibly modify and re-distribute. That's enough to fully comply with upstream GPL licenses.
The customer can get the sources from that second channel and redistribute it without risking non-compliance with their support contract.
>You are not a lawyer.
How do you know?
Posted Aug 3, 2023 2:13 UTC (Thu)
by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
[Link]
> How do you know?
A lawyer would not be sitting here making broad-based statements without knowing more details about their client's situation or at least disclaiming "this is not legal advice and even if it was, I am not *your* lawyer".
Hall: IBM, Red Hat and Free Software: An old maddog’s view