[Yum] yum and RH9 license

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Oct 6 21:32:18 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 17:16, jcosta at lendleaserei.com wrote:
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> Actually, I'm more concerned about Red Hat's agreement, not the GPL.
> 
> Does RH restrict you in any legal way from using Yum? Does RH impose any
> legal roadblocks on NOT using up2date to keep your system updated?
> 
> Red Hat's license allows them to "audit" you at their discretion; I want to
> ensure that by using YUM, we're not violating anything...
> 
> 

You're not.

There are people on this list using yum with RHAS 2.1 - they are not
violating their agreement provided they are not redistributing the
patches to their system to other, unlicensed systems.

-sv





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