24 Oct
2006
24 Oct
'06
6:14 p.m.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org on behalf of William Hooper Sent: Tue 10/24/2006 1:58 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: RE: [CentOS] RHWAS rebuild efforts
Bisbal, Prentice wrote:
You don't need a Red Hat subscription to get any SRPMs from RHEL. The GPL requires that they provide them for free.
Read the GPL again. I requires them to provide them at a reasonable cost to people they distribute the binaries to.
I believe that applies even th RHWAS, since that's still based on GPL'ed Linux code.
Please read the beginning of the thread.
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-October/071437.html
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William Hooper
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You're right - I didn't catch this thread from the beginning. Sorry. I haven't read the GPL recently. I thought they had to provide the source code to ANYONE, not just paying customers who bought the binaries. Of course, even in that case, you can be charged for the costs of transferring that source code, and I guess RH can charge whatever they want, like the price of a RHWAS subscription. :(
Prentice
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