question about RedHat/Fedora and the GPL

[Warren Togami]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 14:32 +1200, condition terminal wrote:
> 
>>I still see no answer. 
>>
>>I see people making jokes of this thread, but no answers. 
>>
>>Why is beehive allowed to not be released under the terms and
>>conditions of the GPL when the GPL clearly states that files use to
>>build GPL code also have to be released under the terms and conditions
>>of the GPL?
>>
> 
> 
> b/c everyone who has had a lawyer review it say the same thing that
> beehive doesn't have to be released under the gpl and the integration
> level of beehive with red hat's environment makes it bordering on
> useless to release anyway.
> 

Not to mention that beehive is based on a very old design, and modern 
buildsystem designs like mach or mock do a better job of ensuring that 
certain types of bugs are discovered and fixed.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com