[CentOS-devel] rhwas 5 work?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 17:59:39 UTC 2008


Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>> Aggregation isn't a problem.
> 
> It isn't aggregation IF it is a derivative work.

It can't be a derivative if an alternative could possibly work 
(regardless of which you ship).

>>> (Well or at least it is a questionable proactice)
>>
>> Nobody questioned it when Sun was the only possible JVM.
>>
> 
> Sure it was ... you don't see any of that stuff in Fedora do you?

I see it in RHEL. So shipping some GPL'd stuff too can't be a problem.

> Or 
> Gentoo or Debian.   If it was such a good idea, they all would have had
> it in there several years ago.

If those guys had all the good ideas there would be no need for ubuntu.

> If it doesn't work it doesn't ship ... and we are right back where we 
> started.
> 
> The bottom line is if you require that, buy a RHWAS and jboss 
> subscription ... at least if we can't make a redistributable one work.

OK, I guess it's the thought that counts.

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   Les Mikesell
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