FC1 on the enterprise?

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 04:51 1/19/2004, Rui Miguel Seabra 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 [...]
>
>*cof* For most software in RHEL I don't think they could really do that
>legally (GPL and Lesser GPL software)

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.

Note that Red Hat has repeatedly suggested (as Jason mentioned) that they 
will continue to provide SRPMS via anonymous FTP. But you should 
acknowledge that they do so out of generosity, not obligation. Thank them 
and don't take it for granted... all human beings tend to become grumpy if 
unappreciated.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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