• @aport@programming.dev
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    41 year ago

    I think it depends on whether it’s considered an additional restriction on the recipient’s right to redistribute the software.

    Saying, “you can redistribute the software but you will face _____ penalty” seems like a gray area to me.

    • @federico3@lemmy.ml
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      21 year ago

      Context is important. It’s possible that the software is distributed without any warning like that and that the termination of the support contract is done without citing the redistribution of previous versions as a reason. OTOH if the customers could prove that there’s widespread knowledge of the retaliatory termination that could be equivalent to a (non-written) restriction that is indeed incompatible with the GPL

      • @aport@programming.dev
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        11 year ago

        Yes more details would be good.

        According to Alma Linux

        “the way we understand it today, Red Hat’s user interface agreements indicate that re-publishing sources acquired through the customer portal would be a violation of those agreements.”