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. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu