On Mon, 14 Feb 2005, Syv Ritch wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:14:10 -0600, David Thompson wrote: > > > The community doesn't owe Red Hat anything. They are only > > doing what they are required to do by the GPL. > > Actually, not! SuSE operates under the same GPL. Their source is > available, but you do not have the right to modify it or redistribute > it. That's the difference between RH and SuSE. Actually, I think the GPL mentions that not only the sources should be available, but in case of distributing executables, also the information to be able to produce the same results. (In this case the SPEC files) I think RMS foresaw how people could abuse the system. But I don't know how Novell/SuSE is complying to this. -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]