Re: Monta Vista software license terms

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
	jeff millar <wa1hco@adelphia.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Monta Vista software license terms
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 13:41:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200302061841.h16Iflwj005365@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:37:26 GMT." <1044542246.10374.1.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>

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On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:37:26 GMT, Alan Cox said:
> On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 09:12, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > 
> > Since you have not signed their contract for product, you have no idea if
> > there are restrictions.  Nor do I.
> > 
> > Remember "Contract Law" may restrict what their customers can do.
> 
> But not to the GPL code part of it

Although a US court recently held a "thou shalt not badmouth our product"
clause in a contract illegal, I don't see where the GPL prohibits a contract
that contains a clause "the recipient agrees not to engage in actions
A, B, or C" where C is "distribute the code".

The GPL prohibits such a restriction *IN THE DISTRIBUTION LICENSE*.  It
doesn't say squat about whether I agree to some restriction in some OTHER
agreement.
-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech

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