[WBEL-users] redhat seems committed to keep is RHEL SRPMS open

John Morris jmorris@beau.org
Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:55:14 -0500 (CDT)


On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:

> RH could comply with the GPL by distributing source for only the non RH
> GPL components to paying customers and no-one else. Efforts like
> Whitebox aren't made possible by the GPL; they're made possible by
> RedHat being nice.

Yup.  But since RH understands that "Don't be evil." is not only good PR, 
it is also good business if one wants to work in the Open community I 
wouldn't worry about them trying to play games with source availability.

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