[CentOS] Vote For CentOS :)

Lamar Owen lowen at pari.edu
Sat Jun 4 12:44:59 UTC 2005


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.
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Lamar Owen
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