On 08/05/11 14:46, Jason Pyeron wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Johnny Hughes Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 7:21 To: centos-devel@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] published errata at http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/
and how that relates to CentOS
On 05/08/2011 12:40 AM, Florian La Roche wrote:
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 07:27:17AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
We contact upstream every time we see one of these, but
are kind of
at their mercy if they don't follow up.
Hello Johnny,
<snip>
Does CentOS wants to start compiling also Extended Update
Support (EUS)
rpms? (Instead of EUS, Red Hat seems to call this also
"Long Life".)
- From the extended list of errata you can see many addon
rpms which are
all Open Source. In addition to the base Enterprise
Linux, does CentOS
want to recompile additional products?
I am pretty sure that Red Hat does not publish the "Extended Update Support" source files on their FTP site. Do you know of a public place where those SRPMS are at?
Surly the GPL would still apply. So them must be available somehow.
Yes, the GPL applies and yes the SRPMS are available - to customers who purchased an Extended Update Support (EUS) contract from Red Hat and whom also receive the "software" in binary form. As Red Hat don't distribute the software to you (either privately or publicly) they are under no obligation under the GPL to make the source code available to you either.
Please feel free to purchase an EUS contract from Red Hat and make the SRPMS available on your public FTP server, under the terms of the GPL.
Also, consider whether such would be detrimental to Red Hat's ability to add value to their product which ultimately has to hurt CentOS too.