Re: [License-discuss] Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract (was Re: License incompatibility)

2013-09-07 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Al Foxone (akvariu...@gmail.com): My understanding is that the GPL applies to object code aside from source-access obligations. [Reminder: There _are_ other copyleft licences. In RHEL, even.] Show me an object-code RPM in RHEL for which Red Hat, Inc. do not provide the open source /

Re: [License-discuss] Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract (was Re: License incompatibility)

2013-09-06 Thread Al Foxone
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Rick Moen r...@linuxmafia.com wrote: Quoting Al Foxone (akvariu...@gmail.com): Red Hat customers receive RHEL compilation as a whole in ready for use binary form but Red Hat claims that it can not be redistributed in that original form due to trademarks

Re: [License-discuss] Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract (was Re: License incompatibility)

2013-09-05 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting Al Foxone (akvariu...@gmail.com): Red Hat customers receive RHEL compilation as a whole in ready for use binary form but Red Hat claims that it can not be redistributed in that original form due to trademarks (without additional trademark license, says Red Hat) and under

Re: [License-discuss] Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract (was Re: License incompatibility)

2013-09-03 Thread Al Foxone
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn bk...@ebb.org wrote: Al Foxone asked me on Friday at 13:58 (EDT) about: http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/corp/RH-3573_284204_TM_Gd.pdf ... At the same time, the combined body of work that constitutes Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is a collective work

[License-discuss] Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract (was Re: License incompatibility)

2013-09-02 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Al Foxone asked me on Friday at 13:58 (EDT) about: http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/corp/RH-3573_284204_TM_Gd.pdf ... At the same time, the combined body of work that constitutes Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® is a collective work which has been organized by Red Hat, and Red Hat holds the copyright in

Re: [License-discuss] Red Hat compilation copyright RHEL contract (was Re: License incompatibility)

2013-09-02 Thread John Cowan
Bradley M. Kuhn scripsit: It's certainly possible to license all sorts of copyrights under GPL, since it's a copyright license. Red Hat has chosen, IMO rather oddly, to claim strongly a compilation copyright on putting together RHEL and Red Hat licenses that copyright under terms of GPL. I