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Subject: Re: Monta Vista software license terms 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:37:26 GMT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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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.
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				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech


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