On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:30:17PM -0500, Ben Russo wrote: > The "BINARY" RPM's are only available through RHN, and even if you have > a Redhat AS > RHN subscription with which to download them, they are (IANAL) > "copyrighted" or licensed > or something so you are not allowed to redistribute them. > > However the SRPMs are available via the RedHat FTP site and the RedHat > mirrors. > As long as you build the SRPM yourself you are "Free" to do so. > > RedHat *HAS* to do this for all the software packages that come from > Open Source Licenses. > They don't have a choice.
They have a lot of choices. They have to make the sources available to those that get the binaries. You and I don't have to get them. Red Hat can also distribute the sources in any traditional software distribution they choose - this could be tar files, not srpms. Red Hat could release the srpms only through RHN and be compliant since *every* Enterprise Linux has RHN access (it's part of the service). -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
