On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 14:15, Stuart Low wrote:
> > If you are a customer of theirs they MUST give you the src. If not it is
> > optional. The fact that they give non-customers anything is a bonus. One of
> > the things I want to do one of these days is look to see if the srpms on
> > rhn are different from those on the web site. I just have not had the time
> > to diff them. My own opinion is that they are not but this is just a guess.
> > I have been wrong before. :-)
>
> I was under the impression that since the software contained in the
> SRPMS is GNU GPL covered (in most cases) Redhat would be required to
> release the SRPMS anyway?
>
> Stuart
RedHat is not required to distribute RMPS on its FTP server. But Sources
used to compile binary must be provided freely plus medium cost. Chapter
3 of the GPL is very clear :
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
received the program in object code or executable form with such
an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a
special exception, the source code distributed need not include
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable.
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