question about RedHat/Fedora and the GPL

[Curtis Doty]

condition terminal wrote:

>On 6/6/05, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 16:26 +1200, condition terminal wrote:
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>>>OK, firstly, I am sorry if I am miss understanding the text of the GPL.
>>>
>>>The part I am questioning is this:
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>>>---QUOTE---
>>>complete source code means all the source code for all modules it
>>>contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the
>>>scripts used to control compilation and installation of the
>>>executable.
>>>--END--QUOTE---
>>>
>>>should this not mean that the likes of "beehive" be distributed?
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>>>Am I barking up the wrong tree and completely missing the point?
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>>>
>>yes. All the scripts needed to control the compilation and installation
>>of the executable is in the src.rpm perfectly fine.
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>OK then.. so how are the files and scripts used to control the
>building of the rpms outside the specs excluded from the conditions of
>the GPL?
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Maybe you have an idea for an open-source build system you would like to 
start here?

http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraBounties

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