Re: Plea for a reasonable RHASv3 license option

[shane stixrud org]

On 31 Aug 2003, Féliciano Matias wrote:

> 
> For me, this is clearly violating GPL.
> A GPL/BSD program, in binary or source form, can be freely (as in beer
> and speech) used. I can copy it to another machine and use it.

I believe the only GPL requirement that RedHat must comply 
with is to provide source code on request.  I have seen nothing in the GPL 
which states binaries created from GPL source cannot be restricted in use, 
so long as source is provided on request.  Whether this act is moral is 
totally a different question, whether the authors of the GPL intended this 
use I do not know, but my reading of the GPL suggests RedHat has the 
"legal" right to do this.