Official position of RedHat regarding software patents

Bernhard Reiter bernhard at intevation.de
Wed May 29 16:38:45 UTC 2002


On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:30:43PM +0200, Jan Wildeboer wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> 
> >If you modify the sources you are bound by the license already.
> >The GNU GPL will not permit you to publish this under a different
> >license then anyway.
> 
> Not even a GPL compatible license not included in the RedHat allow list? 
> Just curious and willing to learn ;-)

I don't fully understand your question.
The list by Redhat contained the GNU GPL.

The license is about copyright on the code.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html should answer quite well
what that means for the source code and derative works.

Patents are about ideas and are a different legal level.
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