Rui Miguel Seabra said: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 17:34, William Hooper wrote: >> Rui Miguel Seabra said: >> > The problem is that that limitation of the Service Agreement might be >> of >> > bad faith in light of the spirit of the license of the software >> they're >> > redistributing. >> >> The service agreement has nothing to to with the license. You are about >> to do anything with the software within it's license agreement. The > > <sarcasm>Really? Who would guess?</sarcasm> > > Contract law (the service agreement) has _nothing_ to do with copyright > law, but a contract that has clauses limiting rights granted by the real > authors of software might not be seen as good faith (I don't see it as > good faith. Legal, yes, honorable, not really). And entering the service agreement with the intent to violate it's terms is in good faith? Oh, and for at least part of that software Red Hat IS the "real author", but they have decided to release it as GPL. That doesn't mean they couldn't release the software they wrote under a different license to their customers. You asked for a scenario, I gave you one. As I said the first time, I didn't say it was going to happen, just that it could. This is getting way OT for the Fedora list, so I will stop now. -- William Hooper
