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Not quite, it is more like the GPL gives you the right to distribute/modify RHEL N, but not to N+1, unless you already have it. The RH subscription gives you RH
by pabs3 3y ago
Not quite, it is more like the GPL gives you the right to distribute/modify RHEL N, but not to N+1, unless you already have it. The RH subscription gives you RHEL N, and RHEL N+1 but only if you didn't distribute RHEL N.
- JonChesterfield 3y agoThe GPL covers derived work. Redhat N+1 is definitely a derived work of redhat N which is itself under GPL as it's definitely a derived work of all the GPL software they build it out of. If the line of reasoning you and others are proposing was sound, I could sell GCC with source code, then change a line of code and thereafter sell it as MyBestCompiler without ever distributing source code again.
- pabs3 3y agoSure, but if they don't give you binaries of N+1, they don't have to give you sources of N+1 and nothing in the GPL requires them to give you binaries of N+1.