question about RedHat/Fedora and the GPL

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Tue Jun 7 12:55:28 UTC 2005


> True enough, so far as it goes; 'release of beehive' code 
> itself.  But if the argument is that one may conceal from a 
> covered recipient under the GPL, the state of the build 
> environment which controls rpmbuild, autogen, ./configure, 
> etc, I certainly know of at least two lawyers who differ. We 
> presented in a panel discussion a couple years ago on the GPL, 
> and hit this topic at the Ohio Linuxfest 2003 ;)

Then if that's the case it's an issue best taken up with fedora-legal or
redhat-legal. No one on this list can do anything about it, I assure
you. :)

-sv





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