-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Darren Reed wrote: > Chris Ricker wrote: > >> On Mon, 1 May 2006, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote: >> >> >> >>> I belive this comment is about the following >>> >>> "As an example, when Red Hat released the sources to their Enterprise >>> Server, but didn't provide any of the Makefiles or configure scripts to >>> create them. Of course there is nothing in the GPL to keep folks from >>> holding back the Makefiles and configure scripts to create them. That >>> was something that was not "true to the spirit"." >>> >> >> Of course, that statement is just wrong >> >> See, for example, >> <ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/4/en/os/i386/SRPMS> >> >> > > I don't know what they do today, but in the past I've had one hell > of a time trying to build a Linux kernel using rpm's provided by > RedHat. They provided the source, along with patches, but what > was provided was definately not meant to make your life easy in > trying to build a kernel+modules that were identical to those > provided in binary form. > > This wasn't even for the Enterprise Server, this was just RH 9.0 > or something basic like that, so I could well believe they do it > with others. > > And as Marambio said, whilst they released the source + patches, > what they did definately wasn't in the spirit of open source. Just to clarify things, I didn't say anything, i was just trying to add some context to Jörg's comment, i just quoted the original response http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/aland#sun_is_working_true_to > > Let me know when you've downloaded a Linux distro, like SuSE or > RH and managed to compile an identical kernel to the binary images > they provide. by the way, the centos guys seem to do just that http://www.centos.org/ > > Darren > nacho -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (SunOS) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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