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Richmond
2023-07-11 16:05:54 UTC
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Is Redhat violating this clause of the GPL?

"When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid
circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention
is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the
covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or
modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's
users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
technological measures."
Don Spam's Reckless Son
2023-07-11 16:45:22 UTC
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Post by Richmond
Is Redhat violating this clause of the GPL?
"When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid
circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention
is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the
covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or
modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's
users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
technological measures."
IBM has the bigger lawyers, but we'll see if this hurts their bottom line.
Carlos E.R.
2023-07-11 18:38:36 UTC
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Post by Richmond
Is Redhat violating this clause of the GPL?
"When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid
circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention
is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the
covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or
modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's
users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
technological measures."
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
https://www.suse.com/c/at-suse-we-make-choice-happen/

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Faq
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Cheers, Carlos.
Richmond
2023-07-12 10:06:23 UTC
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Post by Carlos E.R.
Post by Richmond
Is Redhat violating this clause of the GPL?
"When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid
circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention
is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the
covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or
modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's
users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
technological measures."
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
https://www.suse.com/c/at-suse-we-make-choice-happen/
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Faq
As far as I can tell these links don't answer the question.

What happens if a RHEL subscriber posts all the RHEL source code on an
open server?
Carlos E.R.
2023-07-12 11:05:01 UTC
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Post by Carlos E.R.
Post by Richmond
Is Redhat violating this clause of the GPL?
"When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid
circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention
is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the
covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or
modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's
users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
technological measures."
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
https://www.suse.com/c/at-suse-we-make-choice-happen/
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Faq
As far as I can tell these links don't answer the question.
What happens if a RHEL subscriber posts all the RHEL source code on an
open server?
You'd better ask that in a RHEL group, not in an openSUSE/SUSE one. ;-)
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Cheers, Carlos.
Don Spam's Reckless Son
2023-07-12 11:40:30 UTC
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Post by Richmond
Post by Carlos E.R.
Post by Richmond
Is Redhat violating this clause of the GPL?
"When you convey a covered work, you waive any legal power to forbid
circumvention of technological measures to the extent such circumvention
is effected by exercising rights under this License with respect to the
covered work, and you disclaim any intention to limit operation or
modification of the work as a means of enforcing, against the work's
users, your or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
technological measures."
https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
https://www.suse.com/c/at-suse-we-make-choice-happen/
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Faq
As far as I can tell these links don't answer the question.
What happens if a RHEL subscriber posts all the RHEL source code on an
open server?
If you had followed this story at all you would have noticed that a
couple of "RH satellite" distributions have every intention of seeing
that question answered empirically.

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