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I've seen it mentioned in a few places; it took me a bit to find it, but it's in the "subscription services agreement"[1], the relevant bit being section 2.2:
by arp242 3y ago
I've seen it mentioned in a few places; it took me a bit to find it, but it's
in the "subscription services agreement"[1], the relevant bit being section 2.2:
"Distributing the Subscription Services (or any portion) to a third party outside the Portal or using the Subscription Services to support a third party without paying the respective fees is a material breach of this Agreement even though the open source license applicable to individual software packages may give you the right to distribute those packages (and this Agreement is not intended to interfere with your rights under those individual licenses)."
I think the way this works (legally) is that accessing their service (their Customer Portal) is covered under this EULA, while the software is covered under the license. So technically you're not adding additional restrictions to the GPL. Or something like that. Not a lawyer etc. etc.
Edit: I see there's also some discussion of this over here, in case you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36436375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36436375
[1]: https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/GLOBAL_Cloud_Subscription_Services_Agreement_English_20171117.pdf https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/GLOBAL_Cloud_Subsc...
- jrochkind1 3y agoMakes sense -- it sounds like you can't let someone else use your credentials to access the Customer Portal website/online services... or maybe there's something else that's a "subscription service" they're trying to limit too that I don't understand... but they seem to acknowledge you still have the right to redistribute the source code of any GPL licensed code, that the GPL gives you, right? But yeah, they are trying to figure out how to square the circle and have their cake and eat it too. It does not seem like they are actually trying to tell you that you have lost the legal right to redistribute GPL software though.