On 5/3/2019 8:59 AM, Mark Rousell wrote:
On 03/05/2019 08:19, Tom H wrote:
Red hat can limit access to its source RPMs to its paying customers
and prevent free rebuilds
Whilst it is true that Red Hat could legitimately limit access to its
source code to authorised users of its software, I don't think this
could or would prevent free rebuilds from occurring.
For example, I have a free of charge dev licence for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7 (anyone can sign up to one of these at present).
Most of this code is licensed under GPL (v2 mostly I think) and, as
per that licence, RHEL have to give me access to the source code.
Indeed, I can easily download two ISOs full of source RPMs from Red
Hat's website.
Unless IBM decides to charge "modest" download fee.
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gnu.org_licenses_gpl-2Dfaq.en.html-23DoesTheGPLAllowDownloadFee&d=DwICaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=lBbceI-hYbmg7M7iQCy0jSTRdX_KR13NWeCKNFXZ9L8&s=D7VTnT7pQJmCipExcwCuy4biNxXRSZ4iAj6O8CTf-9Y&e=
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