FC1 on the enterprise?

Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz at simpaticus.com
Tue Jan 20 18:32:48 UTC 2004


At 10:05 1/20/2004, you wrote:
> > Read the GPL, Rui. Red Hat is ONLY required to provide the source to those
> > people to whom they provide binaries. That means they would be acting
> > legally by only offering source to RHEL subscriptors. And if they did
> > choose to create publicly-available source code, they could also just
> > release a whole bunch of tarballs and leave others to struggle with
> > creating SRPMS and RPMS.
>
>Have you read 3. entirely? I don't think they can do that.

So sue them. If you win, you're right. If not, you're not.

>not sure whether we're, at all, going to keep using RedHat.

Yay!

>Tasks like WhiteBox EL will help us ease the task of building our own
>RHEL a-like distribution.
>
>We will likely have to create a small infrastructure for updates &
>package management.

And of course, that infrastructure and that rebuild is /cheaper/ than 
paying for a couple of licenses, right?


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