[ale] Re: Red Hat scare tactics

[Jason Day]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:58:26PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> images.  I believe they have a right to limit the distribution
> of the total ISO to meet certain RH license guidelines.  Sure

Actually, this may not be correct.  Paragraph 2 of the GPL says, in
part:

    These requirements apply to the modified work as a whole.  If
    identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the Program,
    and can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in
    themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those
    sections when you distribute them as separate works.  But when you
    distribute the same sections as part of a whole which is a work
    based on the Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the
    terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend
    to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of
    who wrote it.

Note the parts saying "when you distribute them as separate works" and
"distribute the same sections as part of a whole".  I think an ISO image
could reasonably be considered a whole, thus requiring that it's either
all GPL or none GPL.  Of course, IANAL, IMHO, YMMV, etc.

Jason
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