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I believe the parent means that redhat is going to terminate your contract and/or stop providing updates you if you share the code. This clearly violates the
by afiori 3y ago
I believe the parent means that redhat is going to terminate your contract and/or stop providing updates you if you share the code.
This clearly violates the spirit of the gpl, but it is not clear whether it violates the license itself.
- skissane 3y ago> This clearly violates the spirit of the gpl, but it is not clear whether it violates the license itself The courts will decide, if the issue ever gets presented to them. But even if the (e.g) American courts reach one conclusion, the (e.g) German courts may reach the opposite one. Red Hat’s problem is it only takes one jurisdiction to rule against them, and then they have to comply - unless that jurisdiction is so unimportant to their business that they can just walk away from it.