On Saturday 04 June 2005 01:27, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 22:26 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
I'd put it this way: Red Hat makes CentOS possible at all by providing Source RPMs (which they are not required to do; source doesn't have to be provided in SRPM form to meet the GPL-covered packages license requirements).
This I disagree with ... to quote the GPL:
"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."
This is a good point. But this would not apply to the non-GPL covered works.
So, they would have to make the SRPMS available to the recipients of the binary code for the GPL covered packages. Thanks for the correction, Johnny.