The work must be "Licensed to...", but not distributed to. I think they are only required to provide it to their customers, although anyone can modify and redistribute.
At any rate, lets keep in mind who the good guys are here. RedHat does give everyone the source, and their entire distribution rebuilds easier and with less missing dependencies and build quirks than many single application open source projects out there. If one or two packages turn up a bit amiss, just buzilla the build problem with redhat. Odds are they will fix it up, and thank you for your input. dave On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 13:56, Robert Jenkins wrote: > Hi, > > The GPL states that the source of any program distributed under the GPL must > be freely available to 'all third parties' - Redhat cannot restrict it to > their customers only, paying or otherwise. > > Extract from the GPL at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html > Paragraph 2:b > You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in > part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be > licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of > this License. > > > Regards, > Robert Jenkins. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Magnus Hedemark > Sent: 03 December 2003 16:08 > To: rhel-rebuild list > Subject: Re: Redhat response? > > > Stuart Low wrote: > > > Perhaps I'm missing something, but shouldn't we be able to write a > > formal letter to Redhat requesting that their exact SRPM's posted for > > their Enterprise editions be released? If they've been building the > > system for distribution wouldn't that indicate that the SRPM's (or > > perhaps the build system used?) they use and the SRPM's they release > > are out of sync? > > Keep in mind they are under no obligation to do this unless you are a > paying RHEL customer. If you are, make sure to say so when you talk to > your account manager. Otherwise, don't bother, as it can only hurt the > RHEL rebuild scene if you become a pain in the ass demanding freebies. > > rhel-rebuild mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria > > > rhel-rebuild mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- David E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] (757) 864-6658 ------------------------------------------------------------------- rhel-rebuild mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hosted at the University of Innsbruck, Austria
