[WBEL-users] Redhat Legalese

[Ewan Mac Mahon]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:05:55PM -0500, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:50, Pete Stevens wrote:
> 
> > I believe this is fine. However RedHat have no obligation to make the SRPMS
> > available to you.
> 
> 	According to the GPL they do.  They must make available all the source
> for anything licensed under the GPL.  
Oh no they don't - they have to make the source available to anyone they
distribute the binaries to. Since every official set of RHEL CDs contains
source discs as well as binary ones they do that as a matter of course.
Besides which, large and important chunks of RHEL aren't under the GPL.

Ewan