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

[Milan Keršláger]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:57:22AM -0400, William Hooper wrote:
> 
> Mace.Scott@tatravelcenters.com said:
> > Well, they actually have to.  The GPL requires them to.
> 
> Groan.
> 
> <rehash GPL licensing discussion>
> Not all the software is GPL.
> The GPL only requires you to distribute source to people you distribute
> the binaries to.
> There are many ways that Red Hat could protect access the SRPMs if they
> wanted to.

But any of their customers are able to publish them at least after
trademark removal.

Look at SUSE. They are not publishing SRPMS. There are no clones and
no potential customers ("potential" is the difference between RH's and
SUSE marketing strategy)..

> </rehash GPL licensing discussion>
> 
> Let's please not start this up again.

...and read archive and GPL + GPL FAQ at gnu.org.

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