[CentOS] [OT] RedHat's licence, CentOS rebuild

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 18 20:32:39 UTC 2006


Philip Wyett wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 15:38 -0400, Alain Reguera wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I've been talking with some friends about the Redhat's SRPMs release
>> issue. I've been reading the trademarks and some points of GPL. But get
>> some confusion around the questions:
>>
>> Is redhat forced to release the sources of its product?
>>
>
> RedHat choose to use and release GPL code and a requirement of that is
> the making available of the source code.

Two things:

1) Point me to the clause in the GPL that says you have to give the source
away to someone you didn't give binaries to.

2) There is a bunch of software in RHEL that isn't GPL.

-- 
William Hooper




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