question about RedHat/Fedora and the GPL

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 12:03:54PM +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:08:48AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > I guess it comes down to with what you mean with "control". I'm not a
> > lawyer, but control means to me "have impact on the result". The goal is
> > that the binary building process is fully reproducable (see earlier
> > parts of the license about the rationale). All the parts that impact the
> > results are included in the src.rpm (with some global settings from
> > redhat-rpm-config which is also shipped). The RH buildsystem actually
> > calls rpmbuild to build the binary, all it does on top of that is some
> > queueing. Queueing does not impact the outcome of the build in any way. 
> 
> Although I agree with most of your comments, two remarks:
> 
> -  There seem to be a few settings that are different from redhat-rpm-config:
>    see my thread started with
> 
>    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-February/msg00523.html
> 
>    about rebuilding pango c.s. that was never really answered...  OK, I can
>    imagine what settings it needs, and our local RHEL-rebuild environment
>    has implemented that ;-), but that's actually a bit of reverse engineering.
>    At least in FC3 (didn't check FC4t* yet) this was still the issue.

rpmbuild --target i386