FC1 on the enterprise?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 19, 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 16:49, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>> And finally, have you considered that Red Hat could cease providing public 
>> SRPMS or even public source for RHEL at any time if they feel that their 
>> income stream is threatened by WBEL or other alternatives? Then how are you 
>> going to get updates? Are they going to patch, test, QA, and replicate all 
>> that software themselves?

> *cof* For most software in RHEL I don't think they could really do that
> legally (GPL and Lesser GPL software)

Red Hat is not required to put the SRPMS up for anonymous ftp, as you
know; the requirement of the licenses you mention is that the sources
be provided to those who get the binaries.

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