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

will....

our understanding of the gpl is that if use gpl code in binaries we ship, we
have to provide the customer with a way to get access to the source. it's
not just sufficient to say 'go get it from site x'

what happens if site x goes away...

if the customer wants to get the source from you, given you're the one
selling the binaries.. you're on the hook to deliver...



-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]On
Behalf Of William Hooper
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 2:17 PM
To: centos at centos.org
Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] RedHat's licence, CentOS rebuild



Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:32 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
>
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> <snip>
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>> 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.
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> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesWrittenOfferValid

"If you commercially distribute binaries not accompanied with source
code..."

All someone has to do is distribute binaries and source code together to
their customers and they don't need to provide the source code to
everyone.  RHN already provides RPMs and SRPMS.  A publicly accessible FTP
site is not required.

--
William Hooper

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